Amy Tice was ashen-colored and barely moving when John Grobben got to her. Some of those present moved her so that her head was downhill.
She’d only been turned around for maybe a minute or two and all of the sudden she just reared back and let out this big sigh and was in total cardiac arrest. John Grobben
She’d been racing in the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run. Grobben said that it wasn’t until about 90 minutes later that her heart beat on it’s own again despite the efforts of race officials and emergency responders.
Trail runners sweat and bleed. They get blisters, lose toenails, break legs and constantly battle challenges like dehydration and chaffing. The cold wind buffets them and some even start hallucinating after running for hours, but there is a certain sense of accomplishment that draws them to the sport. Nineteen trail races are scheduled for 2018 and over 5,000 people have joined the Wasatch Mountain Wranglers Facebook group. Enough people pursue trail running all over the world that manufacturers are developing trail running specific gear.
Utah’s Wasatch Range rises thousands of feet straight from the valley floor, calling to the runners down below.
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The following is a map of the experience above.
I want [the climb] to be intuitive. I want it to be hard, but I also want to get straight to the peak as fast as we can. Julian Carr
Not all trail races are as long as the Wasatch 100. Julian Carr, a pro skier who front flips cliffs as tall as 210 feet, started summiting Utah’s Mount Olympus with his dog Lexie in the off-season for training and it inspired him to create the Discrete Cirque Series, five races, all under 10 miles that push runners to their limits. Each race makes a loop forcing runners to climb between 2,000 and 4,000 feet and then dropping them off the face of the world as they make their way down. Carr said, “I want [the climb] to be intuitive. I want it to be hard, but I also want to get straight to the peak as fast as we can.”