You Found Me.
or did I find you!
Mount Tukuhnikivatz (Mt. Tuk) - 12,482 f / 3,805 m
La Sal Mountains
August 2020
image: Griffin Briley
Walt Stack
Walt Stack was a hod carrier by trade and an icon of the San Francisco, California running community. Stack ran approximately 62,000 miles (100,000 km) in his lifetime. Even in his 70s and 80s, Stack ran many more marathons and 50-mile (80 km) ultramarathons than all but a few of his running peers.
Stack was featured in Nike's first "Just Do It" advertisement that debuted on July 1, 1988, when he was still running at 80 years of age.
Famous Quotes
"Start slow... and taper off”
My Running Heroes
Ann Trason
Ann Trason is an American ultramarathon runner from Auburn, California. She set 20 world records including 14 wins at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance race and is considered to be the most successful female ultrarunner of all time.
In both 1996 and 1997 Trason performed the "double" of winning the Western States 100 just 12 days after winning the 56-mile Comrades Marathon in South Africa.
Kílian Jornet Burgada
Kílian Jornet is a Spanish professional long-distance trail runner and ski mountaineer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest trail runners of all time, he has won some of the most prestigious ultramarathons, including the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Grand Raid, ̍Western States and ̍Hardrock.
Jornet holds the fastest known time speed record for the ascent and descent of major mountains including the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. In addition, he holds the 24-hour uphill skiing record: 23,864-meters
Matthew Edwin Carpenter
Matt Carpenter is an American Ultramarathoner as a trail runner and in high altitude marathons.
Carpenter has won the Pikes Peak Marathon on twelve occasions, the Vail Hill Climb eight times, the Imogene Pass Run six times, the Barr Trail Mountain Race, Everest SkyMarathon Tibet, and Aspen SkyMarathon five times each, and holds the course record for all of these events. He is also the record holder for running the fastest flat marathons run at altitude at both 14,000 and 17,000 feet. His success in the sport has been so extensive and described as "one of the greatest mountain runners of all time"
Eleanor Robinson
Eleanor Robinson is a British former ultramarathon runner and two-time winner of the IAU 100km World Championships. She was the first woman to run over 150 miles in a 24-hour endurance race. She was the winner of the first Badwater Ultramarathon in 1987. She was twice bronze medalist at the IAU 100 km European Championships (1992, 1993).
