MUIR Journal

Race Start: 6am (MT) Friday, July 16   San Juan Mountains, Silverton, Colorado  The Hardrock 100 is one of the m...

It’s been 2 years now since the last running of one of the most iconic races in ultra-running: The Hardock 100. Two years to build tension, and for the lucky 145 entrants, two years to prepare. If you’re not familiar, The Hardrock 100 is a hundred-mile endurance run starting and ending in Silverton, Colorado. It’s famed for covering a monstrous 33,000 feet of vertical elevation gain and equal loss over brutally rugged and  jaw-droppingly beautiful terrain, all at high-altitude.

If you’re familiar with triathlons at all, or ultra-running, or Jackson Hole, or just outlandish feats of human endurance in general, then you may have heard of The Picnic: an ultra-endurance style adventure triathlon. To complete The Picnic, you must bike from Jackson Town Square to Jenny Lake 23 miles away, then swim 1.3 miles across the lake, then hike and climb 10 miles to the summit of the iconic Grand Teton, and finally, return the same way you came, ending in Jackson Town Square.

  If you flip to the ingredients list of your sports drink, gel, or bar, you’ve likely seen a few of these sweeteners on the list: tapioca syrup, sucrose, maple syrup, stevia, etc. If they’re all just aiming to sweeten a food, then why do so many types of sweeteners get used? Because in performance nutrition, sweeteners serve more purpose than just enhancing flavor...

Los Angeles writer, creator, & self-proclaimed outdoor junkie Brandy Brooks shares her first experience in the backcountry, with commentary on the lack of diversity in the outdoors.

Why is it so difficult to just eat while you run? Or rather, to just not eat while you run? It should be simple, righ...

Our Impact Lead, Katey Ford, breaks down how to use the waste hierarchy effectively, and how we’re addressing that at...

We caught up with MUIR Athlete Catra Corbett to catch up on the inaugural Cocodona Virtual Experience, the virtual ed...

By the time I reached 14, I’d never remembered color in my world. I’d never known anything in life to not feel weighted or to not be tired constantly. So when my parents and teachers hinted that I might be depressed, I’d deny it. Not out of teenage apathy or embarrassment, it’s just that I genuinely didn’t think it was true. I see now that the causes were obvious: a chaotic upbringing, dreary midwest weather, and anemia, but as an adolescent, I didn’t believe it. I decided that everything felt hard and I felt hardly anything because of a shameful character flaw that I could purge from myself with enough force. This is when I started running.

Oxygen is both essential and powerful. Every cell depends on it, but it also liberates free radicals that wreak havoc on the body and may contribute to fatigue and inflammation from exercise.

Let’s just jump right into the basics! “What’s a carbon offset?” A carbon offset is a way to drive investment into climate change  solutions. Purchasing one carbon credit is equal to avoiding or removing one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (a fancy way to say greenhouse gases) from the atmosphere. With the help of Climate Neutral, we calculated that in 2020 we polluted 59 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide.