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2025 Copper Kings 100 – Deceptively Difficult and Beautiful
The 2025 Copper Kings 100 race in Butte, Montana is a challenging 100-mile course marked by rugged climbs and changing terrains. Despite obstacles like nausea and fatigue, I managed to complete the race in 28 hours, 20 minutes, appreciating the course’s beauty and support.
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MST 100 – Mountain to Sea Trail 50-mile race | 2022
Falls Lake, just outside Durham, North Carolina, is surrounded by rolling terrain and dirt trails covered in thick shade from tall pine trees. This is where you’ll find the Mountain-to-Sea trail cutting, though, and where the MST 100 races are held in mid-March. This year, I ran the 50-mile distance on the course and ended
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Roaring Gap 50k – Stone Mountain North Carolina | 2022
After years of running on trails in the Rocky Mountains, I’m getting my feet wet on a few East Coast trails. There’s always banter in the trail and ultra communities about the differences between the two regions, and I look forward to exploring them first-hand. The Roaring Gap 50k was my first race of 2022,
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Badger Trail 100 Miler | 2021
Have you ever set out to do something that completely intimidated you, but you did it anyway? How did you feel as you crossed the finish line and finally accomplished that Big Hairy Audacious Goal? When I ran the 2021 Badger Trail 100, it was definitely an amazing feeling to cross that finish line. But
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Black Hills 100 – 50 mile | 2021
We’re still catching up from 2020 and everything that COVID cancelled. Thankfully, races that were not able to be run last year and returning in 2021. The tenth running of the Black Hills 100 (along with 50-mile, 50k, and 30k distances) finally took place on June 25 & 26, and I’m so glad I was