Tag: Superior Hiking Trail

Wild Duluth Race Report

Wild Duluth 50k Race Day: Saturday September 19, 2024 – 8am With a light rain Saturday morning at Oldenburg Point in Jay Cooke State Park, me and a record field of starters awaited the conclusion of race director Andy Holak’s pre-race announcements. The boardwalks and rocks are like ICE, he said. This was a special […]

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Superior Fall 50 Mile Race Report

Race Day: Saturday, September 9, 2023 – 5:15am With my pre-race routine perfectly completed, me and 150 friends shuffled through the muggy, pitch-dark early morning air towards the starting flags on County Road 7 in the outskirts of Finland, MN to start a 50 mile journey to Lutsen. I was so excited. 9 months prior, […]

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Ultimate Wildman Challenge Race Report

Wild Duluth 100k Race Day: Saturday, October 19 – 6am Terribly Tough 10k Race Day: Sunday, October 20 – 9:30am I had a pit in my stomach in the dark, headlamp shining, as I stood with 80 other runners at the start line of the Wild Duluth 100k. Sure, I was a bit nervous. 100 […]

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Rossini Road Adventure Duathlon

Trip Plan: Drive to Superior Hiking Trail Rossini Road Trailhead, run ~38 miles back to my house (.3 miles off the SHT), grab my bike and take a road/gravel route ~36 miles back to my car. Start Time: Thursday, September 26, 2019 – 7:55am GPS Data: Run 38.5 miles Bike 34.5 miles Time: Run 7:52:08 […]

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Superior 100 Race Report

Race Day: Friday, September 8, 2017 – 8am I feel like I had been building up to this race for 3 years. I remember hearing about Superior as a lowly triathlete and being kind of mystified by the thought of a 100 miler, learning about Western States and other ultramarathons and thinking I’d never do […]

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Wild Duluth 50k – 2016 Race Report

Race Day: Saturday, October 15, 2016 – 8am I neglected writing about this race for a long time. It was a bad race. I’ve never fallen apart as badly as Wild Duluth 2016. I was undertrained and figured I could wing it. If you don’t put in the miles and race-specific intensity, you cannot wing […]

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Ely’s Peak

Hike Date: June 4-5, 2016 Trail: Superior Hiking Trail Trip Plan: 2 days, 50 miles, park at Ely’s Peak, hike home and then back the next day. Day 1 – Drive south to Ely’s Peak/123rd Avenue trailhead, hike home (near Bagley Nature Center)(27 miles) Day 2 – From home, run to Enger Tower and hike […]

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Sugar Loaf

Hike Date: May 28-30, 2016 Trail: Superior Hiking Trail Trip Plan: 2 nights, not well planned at all. Park at Sugar Loaf Road lot and yo-yo with a long middle day Sunday. Day 1 – Hike north from Sugar Loaf (~10 miles) Day 2 – Hike south from a campsite, past the car, and continue south (~30 miles) Day […]

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Superior Spring 50k Race Report

Race Day: Saturday, May 21, 2016 Location: Lutsen, MN The few days before race day were accepting that the Superior Spring 50k was going to be a hard race. The weeks prior were not ideal training conditions: traveling, vacation, business traveling, rock and roll festivals, heavy drinking, a bad cold, more or less in that […]

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Rossini Road

Hike Date: April 29-30, 2016 Trail: Superior Hiking Trail Trip Plan: 2 nights, 40 miles. Park at Rossini Road and hike home. Day 1 – Hike south from Rossini Road to Big Bend Campsite (3 miles) Day 2 – Hike south from Big Bend Campsite to Bald Eagle Campsite (24 miles) Day 3 – Hike […]

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Wild Duluth 50k Race Report

Race Day: Saturday, October 17, 2015 – 8am Time for the pain. The Superior Hiking Trail brings the pain every time. It isn’t very runable, so why not try to run 31 miles as fast you can on it? I love this very fun race, though, and couldn’t resist registering for it to defend my […]

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Superior Hiking Trail Overnight Adventure

Hike date: Saturday, December 6 – Sunday, December 7, 2014 Location: Superior Hiking Trail (Normanna Road Parking Lot to Fox Farm Pond Campsite) Distance: 8.5 miles out and back “As I sit in my sleeping bag with 5 shirts on, Diamond shivers behind me where my head will ultimately lay for the night.” – trail […]

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