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trail running and travel blog by Sarah Lavender Smith
This guest post by Karen Schwartz of Sage to Summit is useful for anyone planning a challenging mountain run or hike. Here’s what you need to do and take with you before heading out all day or many days in the wilderness. Plus, recommendations of trails to run in the Eastern Sierra.
Where do you go on the web to research round-the-world travel and career breaks? Start here for a comprehensive list of helpful websites for travel planning, budgeting, accommodations, voluntourism, working abroad, packing and more.
It’s close to 110 degrees, and Joe Osha is suffering through the Long Day, the 50-mile leg in the seven-day, 250K (155 mile) Gobi March. He’s carrying all his own food and supplies. What makes a foot race across a desert worthwhile, and how does he go the distance?
This post comes from Monica Scholz, who traveled around North America to set a record of running the most 100-mile races in one year. She managed to travel, on average, every other weekend and complete these endurance events while holding down a demanding full-time job. Here’s her advice, which is targeted at ultrarunners but in […]
Imagine running a 100-mile race. Now imagine doing it every two weeks, and sometimes on consecutive weekends. That’s what Monica Scholz, a full-time attorney from Canada, did in 2010. I profiled her to find out how and why she set a record of 25 100-mile races in a year. “Running was not the hardest part—it […]
How does a fortysomething suburban working mom prepare to spend six days camping and running 155 miles through Costa Rica’s jungles and mountains? I found out by getting to know Tamara Buckley Johnson. She’s one of 67 runners doing the strenuous six-day Coastal Challenge Rainforest Run starting Jan. 30. She talks about why she’s doing […]
Our running gear made our bags burst. Here’s how we kept our promise to pack only what we easily could carry, and still have the gear we needed to run on our trip.