Part One: The First 50 Miles


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Turns out packing and preparing for a 100 race is actually a momentous task in itself.


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Duncan Callahan had his doubts about whether he could win for a second
time at this month’s Leadville 100 — he had some extremely stiff
competition. Halfway through the race, Duncan was behind leader Tony
Krupicka by more than an hour...

This past weekend, for the second year in a row, I failed to finish the Leadville Trail 100. After winning the race in my first two attempts in 2006 and 2007 and taking 2008 off due to injury, the last two years have been a symmetrical—if somewhat di...

I've got my report from this weekend's Leadville Trail 100 up over on Running Times. Hopefully it helps clear up some of the apparent confusion about what happened on Saturday.

Also, congratulations to 2010 champion Duncan Callahan who ran a patien...

I love Leadville. (I think I use that
as an opening line in about 50% of my posts.) There is just something
unique about the altitude, the views, the climbs, the town, the coffee
shop, and the 100 mile running race itself. When in Leadville, for ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Duncan Callahan (pictured, left) won the Leadville Trail 100-Mile Endurance Run this past weekend in a time of 17 hours, 43 minutes and 24 seconds, besting big-name racers Hal Koerner and Anton Krupicka among the competitive field...

Well, for the second year in a row, the Leadville Trail 100 managed
to serve me an especially heaping plateful of humility.  I went into
this year’s rendition of the event with a markedly different mind-set
than what I brought to the s...

Close to 650 runners lined up for the start of the 2010 Leadville Trail 100 Run on Saturday, August 22, 2010.

Unfortunately, the only way to follow this race over the weekend was on Twitter. Unlike Western States, that has constant updates from eve...