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When Plant-based Eating Becomes Unhealthy
When Lucy Bartholomew travels to rural, mountain towns for trail races, she might order a pizza, sans meat and cheese, at the only restaurant in town. In other words, she might order bread with tomato...
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Meet The Woman Making Space For Black Trail Runners In The UK
Growing up in the Cotswolds, a rural area in south-west England, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys was often the only Black person in the spaces she occupied. When she started running to heal from postpartum...
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These Women Say Trails Aren’t Safe For Everyone
Every morning, as 41-year-old Lindsley Kump laces up her shoes and prepares to enter the trails near her Denver, Colorado home, she repeats a mantra to herself: be the energy. When Kump moved from...
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How Dinée Dorame Is Building A Deeper Understanding Of Running Culture
In Dinée Dorame’s favorite childhood memories, she is sitting in the stands of a high school basketball game with a video camera in her hands. Or, she is filling water bottles at half-time. Or, she is...
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Adam Merry Claims the Mount Yale 360 Supported FKT
Adam Merry was out at Western States, crewing for a friend and not thinking too much about his upcoming Mount Yale 360 FKT attempt, when his cellphone pinged. The text was from Chris Harrington, whose...
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Verna Volker Finds Healing In A Community She Built
Growing up on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico, Verna Volker hated running. Like many kids on the reservation, her home became the basketball court, the sound of dribbling echoing through the brown...
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Jenny Jurek Comes Full Circle On The Appalachian Trail
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Building Better Communities
When he was in elementary school, Rudy Espinoza had a recurring dream. He would get rich and buy an S-class Mercedes-Benz. He would open that sleek, black door; climb into those smooth, leather seats;...
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How To Build A Sustainable Race
This feature appears in our latest print edition of Trail Runner. We hope you’ll join the TR family by joining here. For Shelley Villalobos, sustainability started with softball. During her senior...
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A New Program Aims to Close the Gender Gap in Sports Science Research
During her intern year of medical residency in 2013, while working at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Nebraska, Dr. Emily Kraus found herself unable to climb a flight of stairs. She was training for a...
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New England’s Most Intense Race Celebrates 30 Years of Blood, Sweat, and Tears
On the ridgeline above a quiet valley, footprints of 500 runners sink into a deep, wooded trail. Below, the valley is lush with the shades of spring. A river snakes wide through green foliage. But...
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When Plant-based Eating Becomes Unhealthy
When Lucy Bartholomew travels to rural, mountain towns for trail races, she might order a pizza, sans meat and cheese, at the only restaurant in town. In other words, she might order bread with tomato...
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Navigating Long COVID as a Woman Runner
Occasionally, if her energy levels are decent and it’s not too hot outside, Melanie can run a few miles at a slow to moderate pace. But afterwards, her legs feel deeply sore and fatigued—a sensation...
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Allie Ostrander’s Radical Transparency
Note: this article includes discussion of eating disorders and eating disorder recovery. To seek help for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association. The...
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Running and Chronic Illness: Between Two Worlds
This article contains mentions of an eating disorder and suicidal ideation Kristen Doornbos spends much time thinking about bodies. Both others’ bodies and her own. It’s necessary for her passion,...
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