Next month, Marsh will be inducted into the prestigious Colorado Running Hall of Fame. If you’d like to attend, you can! Tickets are available for purchase from their site, corunninghalloffame.com.
For our friends in the media: Please let me know if you’d like an interview with this legendary athlete.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Extreme Athlete Marshall Ulrich Selected for
Running Hall of Fame
March 21, 2013, Idaho Springs, CO — In honor of decades of unprecedented athletic achievements, Marshall Ulrich will be inducted next month into the Colorado Running Hall of Fame, which recognizes Colorado residents for their accomplishments and contribution to the sport of distance running. The state has the one of the highest concentrations of world and American record holders and Olympic and world championship medal winners. Past honorees have included Olympians Frank Shorter, Lorraine Moller, and Arturo Barrios.
Ulrich is the only person in the world to have completed the “triple crown” of extreme sports, achieving records and firsts not only in running, but also in mountaineering and adventure racing:
- Finished more than 125 ultramarathons, averaging over 125 miles each
- Climbed the Seven Summits, including Mt. Everest, all on first attempts
- Completed 12 expedition-length adventure races
He’s best known for his hard-core endurance in severe conditions and over incredible distances. At the age of 57, he broke two transcontinental speed records when he ran 3,063.2 miles in 52.5 days, from San Francisco to New York, about which he wrote his book, “Running on Empty” (2011). Continue reading →
In some parts of the U.S., spring is already yielding to summer weather, and someone pointed out recently that I haven’t written too often about heat training, which seems odd given my fondness for racing and tromping around in the hottest place on earth at the hottest time of the year. But it’s not a particularly complex subject, just one with important guidelines.
