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4 Workouts to Improve Your Downhill Running
Your ability to run Downhill on Steep Grades is crucial in many of the trail races and obstacle course races (OCR) out there. In our last article “Training for a Grand Canyon R2R2R: A Trail Runner’s Guide to Success”, Abigail Lock wrote about the importance of downhill running on this steep mountainous terrain. “while uphill…
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R2R2R: RECAP Q&A WITH CHARLES & JESSICA
We continue our series about running Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim (R2R2R) at the Grand Canyon with this little recap Q&A from Charles and Jessica who completed the trek in late April. Before this adventure we chatted with these two about their GEAR choices and how they were preparing for this journey. If you didn’t get to see that…
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TRIP LOGISTICS: GRAND CANYON R2R2R
The Grand Canyon should be on the list for everyone to check out in their lifetime. And for some of us, we’re crazy enough to go a step further and run across it in a day. And we’ve had a few posts the last couple months for you all. But let’s step back a minute.…
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What the Hell Happened in OCR this Month?!?! April 2024 edition
News: Events Spring is finally here, and the Obstacle Course Racing season is starting to heat up. The end of April came with two big races. Tough Mudder’s first 8-hour Infinity of the year came to Missouri and the fun and difficult course did not disappoint. And then we had Spartan’s first mountainous race weekend.…
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SPARTAN Tri-State New Jersey Ultra Race stats talk
This weekend is the first mountainous heavy Spartan Ultra event of the season. Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon Township, New Jersey is an iconic venue that Spartan has been doing races at for almost a decade now. And in the Spartan racing community, it’s known as one of the toughest Ultra venues in North America.…
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R2R2R: GEAR CHECK – CHARLES MACDONALD & JESSICA HODSDON
As we continue our Grand Canyon Rim Running theme, two more obstacle course racing (OCR) athletes are heading out there this weekend for the Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim (R2R2R) challenge. Charles MacDonald and Jessica Hodsdon have been taking part in OCR since 2012 and 2015 respectively. That’s 21 combined years of OCR!?!? We may need to look up…
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R2R2R: RECAP Q&A WITH DUSTIN RUTTER
Dustin’s 25th birthday was this past weekend and he wanted to go out and do something special for it. So he hit up the Grand Canyon crossing, running Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim. A challenging experience where he ran over 45 miles and hit over 12,000 ft of elevation gain. Before this adventure we chatted with Dustin on his…
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Well Folks, Spartan Race Competition is Bleeding
It’s the end of the 1st quarter of 2024 and we dived into some Spartan Racing event numbers. Specifically looking at the competitive waves. And… it’s looking bad. We’ve seen 8 Spartan Venues come into play this 1st quarter. A year-to-year analysis is difficult on several of these due to a number of issues including:…
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What the Hell Happened in OCR this Month?!?! March 2024 edition
What the Hell Happened in OCR this Month?!?! March 2024 edition
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R2R2R: GEAR CHECK – DUSTIN RUTTER
Running the Grand Canyon. The Rugged Paths & Dizzying Descents. Feet pounding on Ancient Rocks and the Heat gaining on you. The Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim, R2R2R, is no joke of a task as well as a must do bucket list for any trail junkie.
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