Tag Archives: western states

Snow at Western States: Too Early to Panic?

Squaw Valley just reached over 700″ of total snow accumulation for the first time in the resort’s recorded history. Is it time for Western States runners to panic?

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Shout Out to the Big Cow

Every so often you have one of those little discoveries that change the way you run. It might be too early to say Udderly Smooth is one of them, but it could be.

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Twiet’s Training

It takes a lot of training miles to complete the Western States 100-miler. What does it take to win it five times and complete it a record 25 times under 24 hours?

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Endurance Is

Why would I want to do Western States? I blame The North Face.

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Pure Satisfaction 2010

Sunday’s Club Fat Ass Pure Satisfaction 50k was purely satisfying.

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I’m In

I beat some big odds to be selected to run the 2011 Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run on my first try. That was the easy part!

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Tim Wiens: Four-time Loser

Tim Wiens is one of a small group of Western States lottery Two-Time Losers who have actually lost four consecutive lotteries and are finally going to the Big Show.

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