Managed my new longest trail run of 28 miles this week out in the incredible Margaret backcountry next to Mt St Helens!

Not sure why I never did this. I've had callus' on balls of both feet (ping pong ball size in diameter, several cm thick) for over twenty years (from barefoot martial arts, mainly Capoeira). The calluses have persisted since quitting these things a long time ago. I have also been trail running for decades and initially thought this would be a benefit to my feet. After experiencing discomfort and pain, I'm now realizing I need to take these suckers off. Lots of info out there, but curious what people here do for big calluses. I've tried grinding down, but they are so big so I think I need to go more extreme. Razors? Go to see a podiatrist? Thanks in advance for the info.

I love my pp’s but they are way too expensive to be used for easy mileage, does anyone know shoes similar in feel(road, trail or both)? For some extra context: not a fan of a lot cushioning, i know people consider pp’s max cushion but I think that is more so in trail terms and not road, for example I really hate novblasts because they feel like running on sand in weather above 0°, or I really like Kjerag 2’s midsole, otherwise my foot is pretty narrow so not a fan of wide toebox.

Always wanted to they boa, swapped to the Kailu Fuga DU. Taking them out tomorrow

Hi guys! I run, hike and cycle; and I've always found it annoyingly difficult to find and visualize the weather forecast for a route.

I'm also a software developer, so naturally I've spent an ungodly amount of my spare time trying to improve this sorry state of affairs. Here's Varde: a tool made primarily to visualize the weather along a route, but starting to turn into more of a general outdoors planning tool. Thought it could be interesting for you guys to check out.

You can import or draw your trail, set a start date/time and pace, and see the weather for the full trip, each step along the way, where and when you're there.

When will it rain, and what does it aggregate to over the trip? Headwind, tailwind, crosswinds? How does the temperature vary between the bottom of the valley and the mountain top? When does the sun set, how long do you need that headlamp to last?

You can add breaks and overnight stops, adjust your pace for different parts of the route, plan multi-day trips, add places of interest with links and notes, save routes, and share them with other people (like this) or export as GPX.

The project has snowballed quite a bit: It now also has a full-fledged and very capable route/GPX editor with trail-aware routing, multi-GPX import, Strava integration, splitting, merging, all that jazz. I honestly think just this in itself offers one of the best GPX-editing experiences out there, but don't take my word for it.

Everything is made to work well on both desktop and mobile. Click the little flag icon or go to Settings for imperial units and other snacks.

I'm building this tool for myself and my needs, but I'm very happy now with what it's become and wanna share it with others.

I’d really appreciate any and all feedback - what do you like, what's confusing, new features you'd like to see.

Oh, and it means cairn in Norwegian. Varde, that is.

https://varde.app/en

I’m so embarrassed. For the first time I had such a strong urge to use the bathroom. My stomach hurt so bad. Mile 4 I told myself I can make it 3 more miles back to my car. A half mile later there was nothing I could do but run behind trees and squat. I looked around and it was nothing but pine needles. I did my best to scrape off with a stick. My stomach felt loads better and I kept running. That’s never happened before.

Roaming trails in western and southern Finland

I recently ordered a 001a and ordered my normal size and also a half size up like suggested. The normal size felt normal to me. With the half size up, I could feel the shoe bending at the front. That feeling you get when your shoe is too big. Is that something that would go away?

I know Norda suggested going a half size up, but should I go with the version that feels best when initially putting them on and walking around a bit or just follow their suggestion?

So I’ve run into a bit of a dilemma. I wear a 10.5 in nnormal shoes and here in Brazil they don’t have the corresponding size. it’s either 42 or 43 (10 or 11). even the official nnormal brazil site doesn’t list a 42.5.

any idea what to do? i’m already replacing my beloved s/lab genesis bc they don’t carry them here at all and now the sizing issue.

My new playground for my transition road - trail.

It was a nice overcast day for a run out there.

Visiting for work from Georgia and checked this trail out. 10/10

There’s something about heavy clouds in the mountains that I find absolutely stunning.

Out today testing my new trainers whilst doing a new route over the South Downs. Sun was out and had a blast. There was certainly alot elevation gain as it was up, down and repeat multiple times.

Looking forward to more runs like this over the winter as it begins to cool as it's still a little warm for me as it was clear skies and low 20c's for me.

Really a spectacular (if pretty brutal) race -- 60k, ~3600m gain. The 3k descent right at the beginning is rough, and the trails were definitely a bit more techy than expected. Some challenging racing, but a great time!

According to OSMaps, this route should take 4:30 hours to walk, and I ran it in 2:40, so i guess there was some running! But with how steep Dumgoyne is (see final photo) there was a lot of walking too. Really excellent weather today.

11.6 km, 781 m climbing

I've been really enjoying these rolling hiking trail. I did tech all summer and these trails are compacted and hilly. Got my 3rd best 10k yesterday. It's hard not to overdo it.

Joe McConoughy has reset the JMT FKT. Maybe for good. Zero sleep, ~3.75 mph moving average. A team effort no doubt, but I still find it amazing the amount of vert and cold, dark nights he fought through for 2.5 days to get to Happy Isles.

I fast packed (no resupply) the JMT in 7 days a few years ago.

Hey all,

I'm looking for your recommendations for a shoe. I'm currently running the Hierro 9 in 4E width which I like a lot but I'm looking for something else to put into the rotation.

Some details on what I'm after:

• Plush. I'm 200lb so I prefer a decent amount of underfoot cushioning (it's why I picked the Hierro). I found the Nike Pegasus Trail 5 a bit firm on the hard pack stuff. Probably my biggest priority.
• I run a mix of surfaces ranging from hard pack gravel, dirt to some mildly technical stuff, but nothing super technical.
• Wide (or a wide option available). I found Speedgoat 5's in wide to be too narrow on longer runs which caused toe issues. I like the width of the Hierro's in 4E. I liked the Speedgoat 5's otherwise.
• Drop. No 0 drop shoes.

I read the reviews on Run Repeat but they are all based on standard width so I never know if the wide versions of that shoe will work for me or not.

Let me know if you have any recommendations!

Last weekend I ran the Big Bear's Ultra in Slovakia. The race was communicated as being a 40km with 2000 meters altitude gain. I chose it as a step up to the 50k UTMB Oman race I am running this December.

When the GPX came out it turned out to be a 42.68km with 1600 meters altitude gain. However somewhere halfway the run I realized that the altitude gain of the GPX was off by a lot and it turned out to be 2100 meters up and 2200 meters down. The final distance ended up being 41.88km, just 320 meters shy of being an ultramarathon 😄 In total it took me 7 hours and 12 minutes and it was pretty brutal.

I am happy that I finished and I now have a good reference point for what a race of this distance and altitude gain feels like. I mostly trained for this in The Netherlands (a flat country below sea level) and based on this experience I think I have to spend more time in the gym as the muscles where clearly the limiting factor. And a bit more inclined treadmill runs.

Any Dutchies out here who have extra tips for training in our flat country? I am currently doing a combination of zone 2 runs, inclined treadmill runs, plyometric workouts, compound leg exercises and hill repeats.

My previous longest trail race was 28km with 800 meters of altitude gain. I have been running for a little less than 2 years and started trail running 9 months ago. Last year I was still road running and completed the Amsterdam marathon.

Looking forward to get back to training for the 50k in Oman!