Wild Love Video Series: Running with Krissy Moehl
Krissy Moehl is an ultra-distance trail runner, doing for fun what most of us would only do at gunpoint during forced relocation at wartime. The Wild Love series kicked off about 5 months back with an...
View ArticleBackcountry.com Semi-Annual Sale: Gear’s never been so cute.
Looking to supplement your gear selection in a big way fast? Go to a nearby soccer field, park your ’69 Bronco (or other acceptable classic convertible automobile) on the grass, and wait. Or opt for...
View ArticleAnd, Poof! The Grand Teton Triathlon Exists
Alistair Humphreys writes a lot about the need for “micro-adventures” — small but gratifying challenges close to home — and David Gonzales, filmmaker, photographer, writer, and bark beetle antagonist,...
View ArticleFilm: The Beauty of the Irrational
The voiceover for the short film The Beauty of the Irrational points out that “making irrational decisions is precisely what makes us human,” which is a lovely way to rationalize making terrible...
View ArticleTo Run Faster, Hit the Beach
Running on the beach, you probably already know, is a lot harder than running on a trail or pavement. The mechanics of why that is are now understood and explained by a recent study, which suggests...
View ArticleStudy: Older Runners’ Hearts are Just Fine After Marathons
It’s been known for quite some time that marathon participants suffer temporary heart injury after running a marathon. Within one week the weakness of the right side of the heart muscle returns to...
View ArticleStates Won’t Lose $85 Million for Trails — But Can Spend it On Roads Instead
The Recreational Trails Program, the federal assistance program that helps states pay for development and maintenance of recreational trails, won’t be cut from budgets for 2013 and 2014, after...
View ArticleGoPro Catches Trail Runner’s Encounter with a Grizzly Bear
The sheer volume of hours of headache-inducing helmet cam footage uploaded by trail runners and mountain bikers is unfathomable. You think there’d be some level of self editing. It’s baffling that not...
View ArticleToo Young to Run? Or Too Fast Too Young?
Kaytlynn and Heather Welsch are 10 and 12 and they’re competing in 10Ks and half-marathons and triathlons — sometimes blowing away the whole field, others “merely” the other female runners. But...
View ArticleGlobal Adventurer, Once 50 Pounds Overweight, About to Set a Record
When Len Stanmore sold his company in 1998 he was 49. Then he got depressed — he’d achieved financial independence, but now what? So in 2001 he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. It was the only...
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