Gebrselassie breaks marathon world record

BERLIN – Haile Gebrselassie broke his own marathon world record Sunday, becoming the first runner to finish under 2 hours, 4 minutes. …
He improved last year’s winning time by nearly half a minute.
Berlin’s flat course often provides for fast times.
Five years ago, Paul Tergat of Kenya ran 2:04:55, becoming the first man to [...]

2009 Primal Quest Badlands

It’s called the world’s most challenging human endurance competition, and it’s coming to South Dakota.
2009 Primal Quest, an ultra-endurance race through the Black Hills, Badlands and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, is 600 miles of run, bike, navigate, swim and paddle.
The winning team splits $100,000.

See the inspirational slideshow on the official website.
(via The Adventure [...]

Update on the trail run…

Just a quick update on the results of the Emerald Bay Trail run…
Sheena was 3rd in her age division, and 33rd overall.
Morgen was 1st in his division (25 – 29) and 20th overall.
Dave was 1st in his division (45 – 49) and 18th overall.
Not too bad for having run the big race the day before!

Big Blue! (With pictures!)

Finally! After a year in the making, we were ready for our event of the year as we traveled to Lake Tahoe for the Big Blue Series championship, September 20.
Training went well leading up to the event, and I think we were feeling pretty prepared as we loaded up for Tahoe. “Loading up” is right! For [...]

Tahoe’s coming up, and some tough questions…

Big Blue is coming up in two weeks, and lots is happening.
Dave was able to spend a fair amount of time on the phone and on line with FART-Emeritus Thomas Brestis, getting some nav pointers and general knowledge about Tahoe, and about AR in general. Thomas is a font of knowledge, and his experience and [...]

FARTS competing all over last weekend!

The weekend of September 6/7 was a pretty busy one for the FARTS, as we had folks racing in 2, and I believe 3 different races in different states!
Andy competed in the “Dances with Dirt” event in Michigan, and this was a crazy affair, judging by the accounts and the photos… mud, water, poinson ivy, [...]

no Rick at Tahoe

I faked an injury to get out of the race.

Supposedly I fell off my bike.

Another awesome weekend!

You hear climbers and hikers saying “epic” a bunch, and for some, perhaps, it’s become as common as “cool,” or “phat…” part of the jargon of the crowd, but I’ve got to tell ya, there’s still a place for “epic,” and sometimes, you see what they really meant when that first guy said “whoa, dude… [...]