Words of Wisdom From Laz

If you want to build miles, consistency is everything. I learned that in the early 1980s when we went from 1 or 2 ultras a year within driving range to 1 a month. I thought all those long races...

We will be following in the footsteps of history. The ground we will walk on was created over the last 450 million years, as the southern part of the North American Continent rose and fell below sea...

So lets talk about the GVRAT this year (Great Virtual Race Along the Trace) . Trace? What Trace???? . After three years and three meaningful courses across Tennessee, I was struggling to find...

We have one week to go in May, and for those of you who are pursuing a goal that will take all four months to reach, the journey has truly begun. I felt it yesterday. That special feeling that comes...

We don't set our standards by what other people do. This is what I was taught at home. It was drilled in me by my coaches growing up. These are the basic lessons I tried to impart to the kids who...

It is easy to relate to those of you who are a little rattled by the numbers some of these people up front are throwing down.  I spent a lot of my running career struggling with the comparison...

when the days are easy and the miles fly by; you look at that map and you want to hurry. stick to your plan and do what you can. because you are flesh and blood not a gingerbread man. when the day...

Inertia is your enemy. Inertia is your friend. inertia is the property of bodies that are at rest to remain at rest, and inertia is the property of bodies that are in motion to remain in motion. We...

This is for a whole lot of you. maybe in the thousands, who have not done something like this before. Some of you have been cautious, running below the average required, and hoping to make it up...

For you newbies to this journey running thing, you are now a week into your trek. For many of you that week has only carried you from the start at the tip of the state, and around on the Arkansas...

This is for those of you (and there are a lot of you) who are trying to do something beyond what you have ever done before.... Today is a critical day. Day 5. (depending on your time zone!) This is...

By: Gary Cantrell For more than 30 years I was a drystone mason, building rock walls without mortar. It was a very pleasurable, if somewhat arduous profession. The pace and cadence, visualizing...