I’ll be honest, I’m a lazy trail runner. I generally have to Google PR to be reminded that it means personal record. I’m not really concerned about my PR versus your PR, I’m just interested in an adventure. I love that I can take a train at 6 am and be on a trail about...
One of my favorite mountain runs is to go from Wildhaus to Santis via the blue SAC Alpine route. This route climbs quickly from the valley and then offers a long ridge to the Altmann before taking the Lisengrat to the Santis summit. It’s an ideal location from St. Gallen, Winterthur, Zurich and Chur as...
Braunwald is a wonderful village near the end of Glarnerland in Switzerland sitting at just above 1200 m with easy access from a train and then a funicular. It's an ideal day trip from Zurich for climbing, klettersteig (via ferrata), paragliding, hiking, easy mountaineering, and trail running adventures. I originally headed there to go over...
The influence of climate change means that seasonal changes are becoming more abrupt, and this seems to be quite evident in the Eastern Swiss Alps where the snows stay into June. I headed to the Alpstein for a quick run up Santis but had to stop at the Altmann summit as the Lisengrat ridge to...
The Eastern Alps in Switzerland provide a playground of easy mountain tours and are ideal for day trips. For a quick mountain trail running experience, the route from Krummenau to Kaltbrunn provides 1300 m elevation change over 25 km distance, and offers a multitude of variations. The route follows the Swiss hiking trail to Mt....
3 Years in the Making For three years I’ve wanted to take on the Mountainman. The course is somewhere I’d never run before, and the name of the course just spoke to me. So this year when I finally decided to sign up I was both excited and nervous. Going through a season with two...
Introduction About a week ago my friend and co-editor of Dromeus, wrote a blog on why he doesn’t like running marathons. In his article he hits on several good points and his argument is easy to follow, but in my opinion it misses a great deal of the reasons of why we run at all. This...
I started trail running around two years ago. The idea was to combine a bit of the speed from ski touring with the foot work from sport climbing into an easily accessible sport. I also discovered the marathon experience, starting with the Swiss Alpine k42 and Jungfrau marathons in 2011. Since then I’ve run in...
Weekend Warriors The weather forecast had not looked too promising all week – rain and cooler temperatures were called for, but the night before the race that changed to mostly cloudy with a chance of sun. The weather though would not keep most people away. They had made a commitment and were in this, rain...
After the DNF Two weeks after my DNF at the Bieler 100, I tackled the Brixen Dolomiten Marathon. The lead up to this marathon had been anything but ideal. It’s amazing what kind of a tizzy a DNF can send you in despite the support from friends and family. My ankle was still not feeling...