Guest interview by U.S. Junior Mountain Running Team leader Paul Kirsch. Paul is also founder of the Loon Mountain Race and lives in Madison, New Hampshire. Above photo: Joe Viger Photography. The week before Lauren Gregory won the inaugural USATF Vertical Mountain Running Championships, Tabor (Scholl) Hemming made history by being the first former US… Read more »
Written by Alexander Beaven for the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). American Trail Running Association (ATRA) executive director Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA general secretary. Photos: Marco Gulberti. Kenyan pair continue their winning streaks in a new addition to an old classic on the Valsir Mountain Running World Cup. There were wonderful conditions for the… Read more »
Written by Alexander Beaven for the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). American Trail Running Association (ATRA) executive director Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA general secretary. Photos: Marco Gulberti. For the first time in 3 years athletes from 14 countries stood in the streets of Premana, Italy this morning. Before them lay the 32km of Giir… Read more »
For more than a quarter century elite American athletes have crossed the pond for one of Europe’s historic mountain running races, the Challenge Stellina in Susa, Italy. Impressive past American performances include World Mountain Running Championship silver medalist Dave Dunham who ran 1h22:48 in 1994. US Mountain Running Team members Paul Low and Simon Gutierrez… Read more »
Written by Alexander Beaven for the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). American Trail Running Association (ATRA) executive director Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA general secretary. For the first time since 2019, the Mountain Running world will descend on Premana, Italy this weekend for the 28th edition of Giir di Mont mountain running race. After a… Read more »
Guest interview by U.S. Junior Mountain Running Team leader Paul Kirsch. Paul is also founder of the Loon Mountain Race and lives in Madison, New Hampshire. Photo above by Michael Scott. Dan Curts grew up in Ellsworth, Maine near Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor. In high school he competed in track and cross country… Read more »
Written by Maria Avila for the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). American Trail Running Association (ATRA) executive director Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA general secretary. Photos: Marco Gulberti. The Montée du Nid d’Aigle is a classic mountain race incorporated into this year’s WMRA World Cup Golden Label courses. The 19,5 km route ends at one… Read more »
According To Folklore… “The tradition of the Mount Marathon Race began when two sourdoughs debated the possibility of climbing and descending the mountain in less than an hour. “Impossible” one said. To settle the argument – and the resulting wager – a race was held, with the loser to furnish drinks for the crowd. Enterprising… Read more »
Grossglockner Berglauf preview written by Paul Halford for the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). Photos: Marco Gulberti. Kenyans Joyce Njeru and Lengen Lolkurraru are back to defend their titles as the Valsir Mountain Running World Cup reaches round four for the season with the Grossglockner Berglauf in Austria on Sunday. A World Mountain Running Association… Read more »
Two races, 12 miles, 6800’ of vertical, twelve automatic US Mountain Running Team spots on offer This weekend will kick off the first-ever back-to-back weekend double-header of USATF Championships in Mountain Running. On Saturday, July 2, the popular Whiteface Mountain Race will host the USATF Mountain Running Championships in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New… Read more »
Announcement from the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). Written by María Ávila for the WMRA. ATRA founder Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA secretary. Photos: Marco Gulberti. Alyssa Sauro (pictured above) from United States and Maciej Lachowski from Poland earned the first places on the podium at the 15th International Under 18 Mountain Running Cup in… Read more »
Written by U.S. Team manager Andrew Simmons. Andrew is also head coach at Lifelong Endurance and head coach at Peak Performance Running. Photos by Nancy Hobbs, Andrew Simmons and Marco Gulberti. The 15th annual International U18 Mountain Running Cup started out with a bang on Sunday, June 26, in Saluzzo, Italy. The U.S. girls’ team… Read more »
Written by U.S. Team manager Andrew Simmons. Andrew is also head coach at Lifelong Endurance and head coach at Peak Performance Running. The U.S. Under 18 Mountain Running Team arrived in Saluzzo, Italy for the 15th International U18 Mountain Running Cup organized by the World Mountain Running Association and Federazione Italiana Di Atletica Leggera. Eight… Read more »
Announcement from the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). ATRA is a WMRA media partner. ATRA founder and executive director Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA Secretary. Saluzzo, Italy will be the scene of the 15th edition of the International Under 18 Mountain Running Cup. Between Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of June, at least 90 young… Read more »
Tipperary County community comes together to organize the 21st edition of this prestigious international mountain running race as it prepares to welcome the world in September. On Saturday evening, 18 June 2022, international delegates, local community leaders, sponsors and event organizers gathered at the historic Clonmel Town Hall to kick off an official welcome for… Read more »
Announcement from the Mount Washington Road Race. Mt Washington has hosted the USATF Mountain Running Championships in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. Photo by Joe Viger Photography. Gray and Dobson win again with short course records. Weather conditions force shortened course for second time in 61 years. Dobson makes history. Gray on the verge of… Read more »
Announcement from Chris Winter, Director, Domestic Programs and Safe Sport for Athletics Canada. Athletics Canada, in collaboration with the Canadian Mountain Running Association (CMRA) and the Association of Canadian Ultramarathoners (ACU), is pleased to announce that the 2022 Canadian Mountain & Trail Running Championship, the first of its kind, will take place on Sept 17… Read more »
Announcement from the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). ATRA founder Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA Secretary. Above photo: Marco Gulberti. Following on from the successful launch of the 2022 Valsir Mountain Running World Cup at the Seven Sisters Skyline in Dunlewey, Ireland, Castro Daire in Portugal will be the venue for the second World Cup… Read more »
Olivia Amber (USA) and Ruairi Long (IRL) set course records against a record field in the Seven Sisters Skyline 30K race. The old adage ‘if you don’t like the weather; just wait 5 minutes’ held true in the rugged, windswept Derryveagh mountains of County Donegal, Ireland at the 5th running of the Seven Sisters Skyline… Read more »
Now in its 33rd edition, the Challenge Stellina is a 14.3K uphill race with 1500 meters of climb and will take place on August 28, 2022, in Susa, Italy. For 2022, the race will host an international competition for athletics federations from 7 countries that fought on the side of the allies in World War… Read more »
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