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The Essential Guide to Self-Directed Ultras
How cool would it be to be sitting with your friends at the bar, telling a story about how you just ran from Stampede Pass to Chinook Pass—flaunting your recent accomplishments… like an ultra directed by none other than yourself!
Since the 1970s I have raced more than 700 times. I ran for my high school, my college, the National Sacony Team, and the Fleet Feet Racing Team. My favorite type of running nowadays, however, is the self-directed ultra trail run. Such a long-distance run earns you bragging rights and the confidence to say that you endured a…
Read More…Trail Marking for Running Events
Trail marking for running events:
Things you need to know and do.
If there is a fork in trail you will have some participants use it and get lost. The front runners will be going 10mph….which is pretty fast, so when marking think of the speed and how tired these participants will be and you need to mark accordingly. Chalk is good, but after a bunch of runners pass over it can start to be confusing. Assume nothing on the navigational ability of runners. Before EVERY turn and AFTER every turn you need to have arrows. Your Chalk… Read More…