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2026 Bighorn 100 - My Breakthrough

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  A race to a 100-mile finish line is naturally measured in units of distance. There’s the 100 stinkin’ miles, of course. There’s the distance between aid stations, the bite-sized chunks you use to break up the course. There’s also thousands of feet of climbing and even more thousands of steps to be taken. An ultramarathon can also be measured in decisions; thousands of them, big and small, that move you closer or further from your goals. There’s a decision to be steady or patient; to eat when your stomach has already turned; to run when your legs want to walk; to hold on to your last reserves of hope when you’re in the lowest of lows. Just as much as the miles covered, the totality of these many decisions bring you to the finish line. Before the start of the Bighorn 100, I’m making my first decision— an answer to a rhetorical question I whisper to myself amidst a sea of runners at the start line. “Are you open to this?” It’s not the catchiest of phrases. I’m not even sure it makes...
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2025 Run Rabbit Run - Race Report

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Run Rabbit Run - Sept. 12, 2025 Two walls of screaming and cheering surround hundreds of runners, a wave of sound pushing us forward from the start and into the unknown. Within minutes, the sound of cheering dissipates and is replaced by the steady hum of footsteps, clacking poles, and breathing. It’s a comforting, harmonious sound. We’re one band, playing from the same sheet of music. Our music is interrupted only by the occasional yell from passengers in the gondola overhead, clapping and shouting encouragement at an endless line of runners, marching like ants straight up a ski mountain. This is the 2025 edition of Run Rabbit Run, a 100-mile ultramarathon starting in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This footrace measures about 102 miles with 18,000 ft. of climbing at an average elevation around 10-12k ft. Although this race doesn’t have the glitz and glam of some others, it’s still a classic on the ultra race calendar. Run Rabbit Run is widely known for two things; the division between ...
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