Ultramarathon News

Allen Johnson of Ocean View, N.J., runs during last year's Old Dominion 100 Mile Endurance Run.

Ultimate Direction introduced its new Scott Jurek Collection tonight at the Boulder Running Company fun run.

Among the Tavistock athlete's claims to fame is that he is the youngest person to have run 100 marathons and the fastest to run 10 marathons in 10 days.

Most social joggers know what it feels like mentally and physically after they hit what is known as "the wall". It is a very uncomfortable feeling, as your body is screaming at you to give it a rest, and a dull, blankness invades your conscious mind as you keep putting one foot after another.

Modesto's Jon Olsen won the International Association of Ultrarunners 24-Hour World Championships, completing 167.568 miles in the race that finished early this morning.

Rarely are the words "camping" and "haute cuisine" used in the same sentence. But this book, written by an avid camper and a dietitian/cookbook author, aims to change the pork-and-beans reputation of cooking under the stars.

For many runners, a half or a full marathon might be a distant goal. Even runners who have completed numerous marathons might be content with that achievement under their belts.

The run was inspired by the death of Cooper's friend, who died of Ewing's Sarcoma about a year and a half ago.

Does dehydration improve performance? This question and an onslaught of iconoclastic ideas about hydration have broken wide open in triathlon.

The Barkley Marathons , the semi-legendary 100-mile ultramarathon held in Frozen Head State Park every spring, seems to finally be getting the attention it deserves, even if it's sometimes a little more than the race's supporters want.

The worst part of a Ragnar Relay race is the car ride home. The weight of everything you left behind a few days earlier hits you like an atlas ball, and the finish line feels farther away than it did at the start.

Five months ago, Army Sgt. Mike Morton, a member of the U.S. Ultramarathon Team, returned from Poland as the 2012, 24-Hour Run World Champion, stirring the sense of pride within the hearts of his friends, family, neighbors and community.

That's one of the reasons why it was so surprising when he was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme in December.

He started in Alice Springs at 6:30 a.m. , attempting to complete the last run of his personal challenge of finishing eight major ultramarathons on seven continents in five years.

CLOTHED in a compression burns suit, the young Ulladulla woman who had contemplated death amid a wall of flames spoke bravely of the day her life nearly ended in a Kimberley grass fire.

Almost nothing is known about the medical aspects of runners doing a transcontinental ultramarathon over several weeks.

Three friends from Northamptonshire will raise funds for one of their numbers' ill daughter by each running a 60-mile ultramarathon.

Enthusiasts may be considering carb-loading for endurance, high protein diets with plenty of meat, perhaps boosting their calories with gels or shakes, or eating "clean". So can people with a more specialist diet - such as vegetarians and vegans - still compete? Fiona Oakes, a vegan since she was six, has just won the women's title in the North ... (more)

Park City resident Meghan Hicks recently won first place in the 150-mile Marathon des Sables in Morocco.

It's an unsettling coincidence that Eric Orton is promoting a book about running within weeks of an event that thrust the sport into the national spotlight.