3880

3880

By Matt YoungSociety & Culture
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3880 episodes

  • Abigail West comes to Hurricane for the Hundred K!

    Abigail is a young and talented runner coming to compete in the second edition of the Hurricane Hundred K.  She is 27 years old and originally from Gainesville, FL, and now makes her home in Athens, GA.

    She makes her living as an artist; a printmaker to be exact.

    She runs for Rabbit Elite Trail and the Feed and has some nice running accomplishments including Coosa Backcountry Loop FKT in March of 2023, Georgia Jewel 50 miler course record, Rabun Half Marathon course record, and on Runsignup.com, she has seven wins and five 2nd place finishes out of 13 races listed.


    You can find her art at abigailwest.net.


    Welcome Abigail!


    48 min
  • Jake Moreau and the Hurricane Hundred K Runner Profile

    Jake Moreau is next up in the Hurricane Hundred K Runner Profile Series.  Jake is a 28 year old runner from Richmond Hill, Ontario

    and while he’s still fairly new to ultrarunning, he’s not new to competition
    and winning.  He competed in ice hockey and rugby for most of this life
    before beginning to run in 2021 and since then has run four 100 milers, winning three of them and setting course records in two.  We met Jake when he came to Hurricane to run the Muddy Mutt 15k, which he won. Jake is coming to the Hurricane Hundred K to try the 100k distance for the first time and is anxious to competeto win.  Welcome, Jake!  

    50 min
  • HHK Runner Profiles - Traci Falbo

    Traci is a 51-year-old mother of 2 and a full-time pediatric physical therapist, and an accomplished American ultra runner.

    Her accomplishments are many, but most notably, she has run a marathon in every state and has won over 22 marathons. She’s been on Team USA on the 24-hour team 3 different times and was a member of the USA 100k team in 2016.
    She completed the grand slam of ultra running in 2013 which is Western States, Vermont, Leadville and Wasatch 100s all in the same year.
    She was the American record for a 48-hour indoor track event when she ran 242 miles. She ran 14:45 at Tunnel Hill 100 miler and set a new American Trail Record in 2014, which she held for a period of time. She’s been several Team USAs for different events and distances where she has earned bronze, silver and gold medals as a member of those teams.
    Traci is sponsored by Squirrel’s Nut Butter, Running Skirts, Nathan, Drymax Socks, and Epsom-It. And somehow, she’d done all of this living and training in the flat lands of Indiana while she’s raised a family and balanced a full-time job.

    57 min
  • HHK Runner Profiles - Alondra Moody

    Alondra Moody is a 46-year-old mother of four that currently works in physical therapy. She’s also a personal trainer and running coach primarily focused on ultra-runners and makes her home in Knoxville, TN.

    Alondra is an ambassador for Xoskin and runs for her local running store, the Long Haul.
    She has a long list of wins among the ladies, including the Iron Mountain 40 miler three times, Chattanooga Mountain Stage Race, Black Toe 12-hour Run twice, Yamacraw 50k twice, Norris Dam Hard Trail Race 4 times, the Georgia Jewel 50 Miler, and Cumberland trail 50k twice and many more wins.
    Alondra finished the Western States 100 miler in 2017 and has five Hellgate 100k finishes.
    Most notably, she was the overall winner at the No Business 100 miler and one of her wins at the Norris Dam Hard Trail Race was also the outright win as well.
    Alondra set FKT's for the SCAR, Pitchell, and Foothills trails. .
    She has 41 wins and 10 additional podium finishes out of 60 races on Ultrasignup.com.
    She’s done all of this in the past 10 years, when she began running at the age of 36 while working and raising a family.

    53 min
  • HHK 2023 Runner Profile: Dan Green

    Dan Green is a Pennsylvania native and Marshall grad that now makes his home in Huntington, where he works for Robert’s Running and Walking Shop. After being the runner-up at the Rim to River 100 in 2021, he won the race in 2022 and set a course record of 15:34. He has wins at Yamacraw 50k and Dark Sky 50 miler and a top ten finish at the highly competitive Black Canyon 100k in Arizona. Dan is coming back for the second year of the Hurricane Hundred K and is eager to race for the money against top-level talent.

    26 min

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Rooted in West Virginia and the mountains of Appalachia, Endurance Appalachia explores the heart of endurance sports and the people who make them great. With a focus on trail running and ultramarathons, but extending well beyond the trails, we share the stories of the people, places, and events that make this community so special.