Guest Post By lowercase
Craig’s note: While this report was written some time ago, I thought it would be fun to post this at the start of the 2010 Western States 100 entry period.  Go to ultrasignup between Oct 1 and Oct 15 to put your name in the GU2O bucket for the drawing on Dec [...]

Javelina Jundred
November 15, 2008
Fountain Hills, Arizona
I went to Javelina Jundred this year because after the cancellation of Western States I didn’t want a year to go by and forget what a 100 miler feels like. I got a good reminder on Saturday: 100 milers hurt … for a long time.
November is not an ideal time [...]

Javelina Jundred 100 mile race report
October 26, 2007
Fountain Hills, Arizona
“I’m sorry sir but I’m going to have to confiscate your pork and beans.” OK, guess I can buy beans in Arizona. Apparently my two 8-ounce cans of pork and beans are dangerous weapons in the eyes of TSA. I’m at the Eugene airport headed to [...]

After missing last year due to an injury I got 21 days before the start of the 2006 race, I was determined to get to the starting line of the 2007 race healthy so I could run when Dr Lind fired the shotgun at Squaw Valley. I really wanted to get in the top ten [...]

Phelan Owinge
Week before AC. I’m talking to my Urologist who, when he finds out I’m 3 days away from running Angeles Crest 100 miler, asks if I’m nervous. “Hell yeah I’m nervous! You’re cutting my testicles in a week!” Perhaps I was a little distracted, but I really was more concerned about my upcoming balls-be-gone [...]

Executive Summary: I run my normal conservative pace early and work up to 15th by Michigan Bluff (55 miles) and into 9th just past Green Gate (80 miles). A bad patch between 83-91 miles slows me down and I fall back to 11th before rallying to finish strong in 18:25, a 21 minute PR, in [...]

My Reflections on “States”
This one was fun. Not that my previous four 100 milers weren’t fun, but I have never been able to run as consistently through the full 100 miles. The short story is this. I see a rattlesnake, puke for the first time in about 35 ultras, run Cal St in three hours, [...]

Flying into Los Angeles and not being able to see the ground because of the smog was definitely strange. Why the heck am I coming to this place to run 100 miles I asked myself? YUK! How do people live down here, let alone run 100 miles in this stuff?
The reason I am here is [...]

I could summarize my 2002 Western States 100 run as solid.  Not bad, but not exceptional.  Finished in 19:44 in 15th place overall and 13th male. The field was very good, building upon last year and approaching the depth of fields seen in the 80s.  My time this year would have placed me in the [...]

It’s about time.
In the summer of 1977 or 78, I can’t remember which, I’m camping down at American Canyon Creek near Auburn Lake Trails with my brother and step brothers when we see a very tired dirty looking guy running on the trail. He stops at the creek and wets himself down. He [...]

Seems like part of being an ultra runner is writing a race report. Maybe it’s because you get tired of repeating the same story over and over and over? So, here is my report for my first 100 miler at Arkansas Traveller last weekend.
I’m as running fit as I’ve been since moving back to Oregon [...]