The Leadville Stage Race hosted July 24-26 will follow the exact same course as the LT100. But rather than slamming through it in one day, which can take riders up to 12 hours, it will spread the race over a more civilized long weekend trio of stages. Day one will see riders roll 42 miles from town over St. Kevin’s and Sugarloaf passes to Lost Canyon, just past Twin Lakes....
"The goal of the book is to really provide some tangible and relevant mindset principles that people might apply to endurance racing or running or mountain biking or adventure racing," Macy said. "But hopefully it will be more widely applied to other areas of their life like work, parenting, relationships or personal growth." The format of the book takes lessons learned from endurance event competitions that are applied to “regular”...
Daniel Arnold took on the 4,478 meter north face along the Schmid route, attacking the final climb at Bergschrund and taking maximum advantage of the snow cover to gain height quickly with a record time of one hour and forty-six minutes.
[EuroNews]
A group of seven Danish swimmers under the direction of National Training Centre Head Coach, Stefan Hansen have been training at high altitude in Sierra Nevada since April 18th. Sierra Nevada is 3,478 meters above sea level.“Altitude training is an opportunity to workout with a little extra stress on the body, swimmers who have previously been on altitude training camps have good experience of being at this height, and come home well...
CBS 8 San Diego has a report about a local health club providing altitude training through an egg shaped machine called a “CVAC Pod” which stands for (Cyclic Variations in Adaptive Conditioning.) The makers claim fitness on a cellular level and a boost in energy levels. The story features a woman by the name of Denise Mueller. You see, Denise Mueller is a true believer of altitude training. She first jumped...
Rutger's professor James Miller in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences collaborated with an international team of scientists on a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change showing evidence that global warming often occurs more rapidly at high altitudes.They call on improved observations, satellite-based remote sensing and climate model simulations to better understand "elevation-dependent warming" (EDW).Miller was quoted saying,...
Dumbarton Rock in Scotland was first climbed in 1983 by Dave Cuthbertson. The ferocious slightly overhanging crack was the first in the United Kingdom to be graded E8. At the time it was hailed as one of the hardest climbs in the world. Last September French climber Caroline Ciavaldini finally clinched the first female ascent after 31 years of the first accent, documented in this video posted by Wild Country...
The climbing group organized by Tusker Trail and benefiting the charity of Duskin & Stephens with 100% of proceeds going to support families of fallen soldiers was comprised of two active service U.S. Special Forces veterans, injured in the line of duty along with family members of those who have fallen. The Kilimanjaro Climb for Valor returned safely after a 9 day trek that led the team to the summit...
Meet Randy Pierce. Losing his vision at the age of 22 to a neurological disease, Pierce made it a point not to loose hope. Since then he’s trained to be able to enjoy sports and general awareness despite this challenge. He set a goal to be the first blind hiker to summit all 48 of the New Hampshire 4,000-footers. He accomplished that goal in 2013 with the help of his guide...
Look out for the award-winning documentary "Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco". The film is about Micah True, the endurance runner nicknamed Caballo Blanco or "White Horse" who was made famous in Christopher McDougall's 2009 best-seller "Born to Run". The feature-length film chronicles the life of True and his devotion to helping the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyon preserve their running culture. True, who passed away in...
Ultra Fiord 2015 first year's race was a new ultra-distance event held April 16-18th in the remote back country areas on the outskirts of Torres del Paine National Park. In addition to 30K, 70K and 100K races, the event included the first 100-mile race in Chilean Patagonia. Jeff Browning aka (Bronco Billy) was victorious in the 100-mile race in 24:25. On his Facebook post, Browning called the race “the most technical 100-mile course I’ve ever seen”...
Swimming World interview with Olympian Swimmer, Conor Dwyer discussing coming down from a recent altitude training camp and having Katie Ledecky beat him and the rest of the men on a threshold set at altitude.
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