Archive for the ‘ running ’ Category

I just found out about this 5K run over the weekend. It was in Chicago this past Saturday and it sounded hilarious! It’s called the The Skirt Chaser. Here’s the rundown:
Girls gets a 3 minute head start…then the boys are released!!! Everyone runs a 5K!
I wonder if they play the Benny Hill theme at the [...]

Just a reminder for all of those who’ve forgetten…the TOP 25 from EACH race are eligible to go to our Championship Race in Las Vegas!
These fine folks from Rochester qualified to go to fabulous Las Vegas:
*1 Adrienne Dykeman & Michael Rhoda: Team Winner (1:12:10)
*2 Kate & Bill McGuinness: Fighter of the Nightman (1:20:30)
*~3 Eric Shoen [...]

The Internet is a beautiful thing. I’m not talking about porn, so get your mind out of the gutter. Anyway, I’m surfing or maybe I was Stumbling, either way I came across a Nike Running video that I watched over and over for a variety of reasons: 1. everyone is (tastefully) nude; 2. David Olds [...]

I love to eat. Anyone looking at me can easily tell. After a recent meal at one of my favorite Berkeley restaurants, Kabana, I turned to my good friend Deepa and said this: “I can’t believe I ate all that tandoori fish. I’m feeling a tad bit tubbly.”
Well, needless to say I’ve come across a [...]

This weekly segment will compress highlights or our urban races (people say they’re great!), cool and exciting High Trek Adventure tid bits, The Amazing Race, links and other interesting and helpful things we find throughout the week.
With the economy in the tank we’d like to help out when we can. So listen up Houston. I’m [...]

LA is the land the rich and famous and the fit. I’ve dug up some great resources for all you Los Angeleanos (I love that word).
This site boast 73 trails and uses Google Maps (who doesn’t use Gmaps these days): Trail Running
I need to find this site in Bay Area ’cause it has cool “yield [...]

Starting today and every Tuesday that follows, High Trek Adventure is going to post pictures of urban adventure racers. And from time to time we will post interviews (along with pictures) of adventure racers (not necessarily High Trek Adventure…Amazing Race, ever heard of it
So, tune it every Tuesday, because you may be famous! [...]

Exercise on Thanksgiving Day?!? No way! Unless you’re talking about walking to the refrigerator for more gravy. Well, tens of thousands (that’s how many people attend some of the most popular turkey trot) wake up early on the fourth Thursday of November to run distances of 5K to 42,195 meters!!! Holy moly.
The first turkey trot [...]

Davis is known as a biking community (I was really amazed at UCD’s circuitry of bike paths), but it has a great core of road races and running clubs. So, the next time your Huffy gets a flat, lace up those old Prefontaines and get groovin’. Here’s a smattering of cool and interesting clubs and [...]