UltraRunning Magazine

The very first issue of UR was published this month back in 1981. The cover was printed in black and white and featured the TAC (The Athletic Congress) 50K champ from 1980, Bill DeVoe, running the Knickerbocker 60K in New York’s Central Park. Inside,

SUBSCRIPTIONS Laura Kantor help@ultrarunning.com ADVERTISING SALES Heather Pola heatherp@ultrarunning.com PUBLISHER Karl Hoagland karlh@ultrarunning.com EDITOR Amy Clark amyc@ultrarunning.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Donald Buraglio DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL CO

People who’ve lived at altitude for generations, like Tibetans and Andeans, show genetic adaptations to altitude to overcome the lower barometric pressure and corresponding lower oxygen density in the air. However, the main adaptations that occur are

Multi-week journeys are all about the itch. You have two options: scratch it with little thought for temporary relief or think intentionally about addressing it. I’m convinced that short of a NASA rocket launch, making a multi-week running journey ha

We used to have a saying about running ultras, “You can only gain minutes, but you can lose hours.” Maybe that old saw is still around. If it isn’t, it should be. It holds a lot of truth as an “either-or” choice. It holds truth when running 8:30 min/

PRESENTED BY: A Toll Trail To ‘SWIFT & CERTAIN DESTRUCTION’ In August 1863 William H. Brewer, leading an expedition to map California’s staggering array of resources, traveled along what would become known as the Western States Trail. He found an ext

4, 4 So, what does that little symbol mean? The first number is the elevation profile, the second is the quality of the surface. Both are on a 1 – 5 scale, with 5 being the most difficult. 1 Flat or nearly flat2 Rolling; total climb up to 50' per mil

Long before Theodore Solomons envisioned a continuous trail paralleling the granite crest of the Sierra Nevada while gazing eastward from the Central Valley lowlands in May of 1884, the range had been well-traveled by the Native Americans living on e

If you know your trail running history, you know the Dipsea Race is widely considered the nation’s oldest trail run. Beginning in 1905, the 7.5-mile trek starts in the bucolic town of Mill Valley, CA, located about 15 miles north of San Francisco, an