Bryon Powell
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2 weeks ago |
irunfar.com | Bryon Powell
Over a recent 12-day stretch, I ran 255 miles. I ended that stretch with a 50-kilometer training run that went as well as I could have hoped. I surged in the final hour of that run, ending with my fastest mile in weeks, if not months. The next day, an easy 3.5 miles on an oft-run route turned into one of my fastest runs, again, in weeks, despite having no intention to do so. Gosh, running just feels so damn good right now. And that’s where the potential problem lies.
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3 weeks ago |
irunfar.com | Bryon Powell
Ultrarunning is community. Community is personal. Alex Pashley was both of those things. He will be so missed. If you never met “Pash,” I’m sorry, that’s your loss. However, if you had met Pash, you suffered an even bigger loss when he and two others met an untimely end in an avalanche in the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, on March 24, 2025.
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1 month ago |
irunfar.com | Bryon Powell |Bryon's Column
In early October 2024, I headed to China to run the Ultra Gobi 400k for the second time. This 250-mile (400-kilometer) run is a self-supported, self-navigated, non-stop race through the Gobi Desert of north-central China’s Gansu province. I would have 142 hours to navigate to the 28 checkpoints (which supplied ambient-temperature water only) and 10 rest points (offering ambient and hot water, heated communal tents, and our drop boxes). There were no crews or pacers at the race.
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2 months ago |
irunfar.com | Bryon Powell |Bryon's Column
I hope that everyone, whatever their pursuits, may have an experience as transcendent as I did at the 2024 Ultra Gobi 400k, where I covered the race’s 250 miles/400 kilometers in 68 hours and 59 minutes. In the process of winning and setting a race record, I shocked no one more than myself. Despite the occasional blister, gastrointestinal moment, or emotional dip, for the better part of three days, I experienced a joyful ease of effectiveness.
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2 months ago |
irunfar.com | Bryon Powell
In one of the deepest fields in the history of the Black Canyon 100k, the anticipation was palpable as runners got underway at 7 a.m. local time on Saturday, February 8, for the 2025 edition. The 62-mile course follows a 55-mile section of the historic Black Canyon National Recreational Trail, once used by Indigenous travelers and traders.
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