Kansas Ultrarunners: Beneath the wide Kansas sky, a small band of hardy souls got close to nature, and each other, running across the rolling prairie one fine fall weekend. Forty-three dedicated runners came to Cassoday for the fourth annual Heartland 100-Mile Run. Some came for competition, some came for camaraderie, and some came just for the scenery. "I like the loneliness of it," said Dallas Smith, of Cookeville, Tenn., during a brief stop at the wind-swept Ridgeline aid station, 36 miles into the race. "It's the wildest, most primeval thing you can do -- legally," he said. The Heartland Run is known as an "easy" 100-mile run.
Ultrarunning Couple: Does this sound like fun? Wake up in the middle of the night, put on your shorts and shoes, start running just before daybreak, and spend the next 12 hours running up and down canyon trails and across the prairie. That's how Jim and Nancy Davis spent a fine day at Kanopolis State Lake. "It's what we do together," said Nancy Davis, of Burns. "It's an abiding, enduring interest we have."
Ultrarunners-Profiles: Brief profiles of Heartland 100 runners from Germany, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Ultrarunners-Races: A list of the races put on by the Kansas Ultrarunners Society, with comments by KUS members and editors of Running Times and Ultrarunning magazines.
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