Six Days in the Dome has begun with a bang. Zach Bitter has shown records can fall on the 443-meter track in Milwaukee. Eleven hours - nineteen minutes - and eighteen seconds. In the time most frat boys sleep in on a weekend, Zach Bitter has run 100 miles faster than anyone - ever. How big is that? That's just over two, five and a half-hour 50-milers - back to back. Who knows how long this record will last, likely for a very, very long time. Unlike many obscure ultras, rabid

At 69 years young, Tom McGrath just ran from Belfast to Dublin to finish off a 40-year ultrarunning career. A marathon a day for Jigsaw, a charity dedicated to helping Ireland's youth with mental health issues, this is Tom's final long trek. Running into Croke Park, where Tom once played in two All-Ireland semi finals (Ireland's Super Bowl) 80,000 stood to honor a man who had battled it all - up close and personal. A Gaelic Football star turned alcoholic, turned bar owner, tu

If you feel life has to be an amazing journey or it's nothing, then you may find you have more in common with this mega-distance running ali

Running.......... It sounds glib to say running saved your life, but in my case that's the way I see it. Moving to New York is like stepping off on another planet. When you aren't even from a real city, nature is the rule, buildings are the exception. In New York, that's reversed. Will never forget seeing Bryant Park for the first time. When I arrived in the city, I saw thousands of people huddled around a rectangle of grass and staring at it as if something were about to hap