Women are outnumbered by men in trail and ultra running. In a big way. When the distance in the race increases the number of women signing up for the racing goes way down. In 2016, of all people who started a 100 mile race only 21% of them were female....

What are your big crazy goals? Many of us have that big goal race or big goal distance we want to achieve some day. Well some day just isn’t a plan. If you put a little strategy into how you spend your miles and what races you do sign up for you can ma...

Are you ready for 100 miles? If you have been wrestling with the idea of registering for your first one hundred mile race but just can’t seem to pull the trigger or just don’t know where to start then this episode is for you.

Ralph Protano is the Trail Development Manager for the Cleveland Metroparks. Ralph is the guy with the vision and the knowledge behind the amazing trails in the best park system in Ohio and beyond. Ralph’s “tread lightly” approach is intuitive to the e...

One of my favorite things about running ultra marathons is the community and culture that surrounds these epic events, particularly the one hundred mile distance. There is something about the prolonged suffering and overcoming adversity that a runner f...

The dreaded DNF, or Did Not Finish, is a whole lot more than a blemish on your Ultrasignup score. It is a scar to be proudly shown. It means you attempted something epic. You went big. It also means it just wasn’t your day.

  How do you balance family, work, and running? The secret is you don’t. If you are training for marathons or ultras then some part of that trifecta is going to fall apart. The trick is, just like running down steep hills, it’s controlled chaos.

It’s been way too long since the last episode of the Sugarstride Podcast. We are back! The Sugarstride Podcast is all about trail and ultra marathon running! We are back after a few months off and ready to rumble if you will.

Just what can you do in preparation to make sure race day is perfect? While running an ultra marathon there are bound to be all sorts of issues that will come up over the course of a 50k to 100 miles or more. This is no surprise.

This is an extra special episode of the Sugarstride Podcast. Sugarstride has a running club called Eat Clean, Run Dirty and we meet up for some miles and a free beer on Monday nights in Cleveland for roads or Akron for trails.