Running Events and Routes

Plan half a pound of color powder per runner across three stations, or a full pound across five. A calculator turns your headcount into an order.

Bay to Breakers is a 12K through San Francisco, run since 1912. The course route, what to expect along it, and the traditions that made it famous.

Mud runs carry real risks: injury, exhaustion, waterborne infection and lost kit. What each one looks like, and how to lower the odds.

Runner’s trots are a real and common gut problem in long races. What causes them, and what to change in food, timing and pacing to prevent it.

A marathon is 26 miles 385 yards, or 42.195 km, and the odd number is an accident of history. How the distance was set, then standardized in 1921.

Foil blankets trap the heat a finisher loses fast once they stop moving. Where they came from, what else they are used for, and why races hand them out.

Eight of the hardest races on earth, from the Barkley Marathon to Badwater and the Western States 100, and what makes each of them brutal.

The Spartan bucket carry is about 75 pounds of gravel over 200 to 400 meters. How to grip it, how to train for it, and the mistakes that cost you.

The Spartan Trifecta means finishing a Sprint, a Super and a Beast in one year. How it works, the medals, and what a multi trifecta involves.

What the Spartan obstacles weigh and involve, how long to train before one, and the endurance and strength work that gets you through them.