Category: Trail Running
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Flagstaff ultrarunner Jeff Browning is more than halfway through his quest for the fastest known time on the Colorado Trail. He started on Sunday.Quick Hits: Kessler 3rd in Diamond League Lausanne 1,500 Rematch; Browning 300 Miles into Colorado Trail FKT Bid; Spike Night at Run Flagstaff
Quick hits for a Thursday morning: — In the Diamond League Lausanne meet Thursday, the first major event post-Olympics, there was a rematch of sorts in…
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Trail of the Week: We Welcome Back the Waterline Road Trail after a Two-Year Closure
There were a few things I had forgotten – joys and challenges – about running up Waterline Road in the two years the trail had been…
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Flagstaff ultrarunner Pete KostelnickRace Results: Falmouth Road 7M, Leadville 100 Trail and Kostelnick’s Comeback
Flagstaff elite ultrarunner Pete Kostelnick raced the notoriously difficult (and hypoxic) Leadville 100 Mile Run in Colorado this weekend. He finished 83rd in 24 hours 30…
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Flagstaff’s Ted MacMahon (right) won the 50+ dicision of the TransRockies Run, a six-day stage race; at left, Flag’s Christopher St. Jean finished second in the Baldface Scramble 29K in New Hampshire.Saturday Racing: Flag’s MacMahon Wins Trans Rockies 50+ (9th Overall); St. Jean 2nd in New Hampshire; Falmouth Mile Results
Showing not only tremendous fitness but impressive consistency (not to mention recovery), 58-year-old Flagstaff runner Ted MacMahon won the 50+ division of the six-stage TransRockies Run…
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Jeff Browning’s Latest Quest: Colorado Trail FKT, Benefiting the Warrior Trail Foundation
There’s always another adventure, the longer the better, awaiting Jeff Browning, the Flagstaff elite ultrarunner who in the past 25 years has won 30 100-mile races.…
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Ted MacMahon (left, in photo) after winning the first stage of the six-stage Trans Rockies run.Tuesday Quick Hits: MacMahon Crushing Trans Rockies Run; Waterline Road/Schultz Pass Road Reopening; Prep XC Spike Nights Next Week
Quick hits for a Tuesday afternoon: — Flagstaff’s ageless distance runner, Ted MacMahon, has won both the first two stages of the six-day, 120-mile Trans Rockies…
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Trail of the Week: Slate Mountain, 4.6 Miles
Hey, how’s that Imogene training going, you Flagstaff locals? Tired yet of the Sisyphusian climbs up Humphreys, Elden, Kendrick and O’Leary peaks? Looking for something different…
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Trail of the Week: Schultz Creek to Secret to AZT, Back to Schultz, 11 Miles
Heraclitus, that ancient philosopher who touted the universal flux theory, once said that you can’t step in the same river twice. And that is meant to…
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A mile and a half into the Kachina Trail run, there’s a cave that the Coconino National Forest says sometimes serves as shelter for bears. Don’t fret; the bears don’t like the constant foot traffic and stay away.Trail of the Week: Out-and-Back on the Lovely Aspen- and Fern-laden Kachina Trail
Promises, promises. The Coconino National Forest website description of the Kachina Trail, one of Flagstaff’s iconic paths carved into the San Francisco Peaks’ southern flanks, promises…
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Pete Kostelnick, pictured during his record Race Across America several years ago, finished 19th in the grueling Badwater 135 Ultra Marathon in Death Valley.Wednesday Quick Hits: 8 Flagstaff Pros Get Big USATF Grants; Kostelnick 19th at Badwater 135; NAZ Elite Hosting Hopi Fundraiser
Quick hits for a Wednesday: — Eight Flagstaff-based professional runners have been named recipients of the USATF Foundation 2024 class of Stephen A. Schwarzman grants. Among…
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