Maggie Akyüz likes em long and hard. Okay, once you are done rolling around in the gutter you’ll understand that Maggie likes a challenge. Just having finished her first hundo at Zion, she shares with us how an Eastie moved to the west coast with an appetite for adventure and kicking the @#%$ out of the bucket list.

Running Naked on Sharp Pointy Stuff

Amy Sproston Interview

What do we like about Amy Sproston? Well, just about everything! When she isn’t flying around the globe trying to make this blue marble a better place, she is blazing on trails and roads. We talk with Amy about winning at the World IAU 100k Championship and living the life of an elite athlete, would can be randomly drug tested on any given day. How good is she at winning? She won us over. BIG TIME!

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Relatively new to the ultra scene, Sage Canaday is certainly making a name for himself in the ultra community and its easy to see why. Already having claimed victory as the US Mountain Running Champion, 100k Ultra Trail National Champion and course record at White River 50m, Sage’s crossing over from marathons has URP buzzing. What makes Sage tick? Find out here.

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If you are anything like us, you are counting down the days until Lake Sonoma 50 like a 7-year-old counting the days until Christmas. UltraRunning Magazine publisher and Lake Sonoma 50 Race Director, Tropical John Medinger joins us to talk about this year’s premier race and publishing one of our favorite magazines. UltraRunner, Yassine Diboun also joins the program to talk about his preparation for LS50 and life as a running coach.

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Picture in your mind your very first ultra. Now, picture in your mind running your first ultra with your eyes closed. Sound impossible? Don’t tell that to Richard Hunter, a vision impaired runner training for his first ultra, The American River 50 Mile Endurance Run. We are very proud to present his story and introduce him to the ultra running community.

Run for a Reason (CIM)

United States Association of Blind Athletes

Last year a young man who goes by the name “The Kansas City Kid” caught our attention. We interviewed Russ Thomas about his amazing weight loss journey and how running ultras was a part of his success. He laid out some pretty ambitious goals the last time we spoke. Fast forward one year. How is he doing? Where is he running? What is he going to run? Did he ever blow-up a building like he said he was going to???

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What is the state of ultrarunning and where is it going? To help answer these questions we brought in Western States Race Director, Craig “Lord Balls” Thornley and Meghan “The Queen” Arbogast. We talk about drug testing, runners to watch, ultrarunning teams, swag and so much more. Lord Balls also presents us with a top ten list centered around his pal and yours, AJW.

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I think we have all looked a map and thought, “Wow. No one I know has done that. It would be so cool to run it.” Jesse Barragan and Ken McKee thought it and then did it. Both ran a circumnavigation around Folsom Lake, nearly 70 miles. This is the story about two friends, the adventure they had and what they learned in the process.

With a name like Davy Crockett it is only fitting that the man with the same name as the American folk hero runs ultras. Fact is, both Crocketts would probably have a lot in common. What started as a way to get fit in his forties ended up being a relentless passion to seek out adventure and test the limits of human endurance. What makes this ultra running frontiers man tick? Grab your running shoes and coonskin cap, Davy Crockett is about to tell a tale, and the only thing tall about it is it’s distance.

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What do you get when you combine one Hardrock 100 shared first place finish, Grand Slam finish, a couple of Western States 100 top ten finishes and a couple of FTK’s just for good measure? Yep, you get Mark Hartell. Fancy that, Mark now lives Santa Barbara and has zeroed in on being a co-race director of quite easily one of California’s toughest 100 milers, the DRTE 100. What’s his story? What can we expect from this years DRTE 100? – All of that a whole lot more awaits.

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