Articles Written by:    ANNETTE BEDNOSKY     

Newbie Race Director Jitters

Ack! The photos above are just a few of the various piles of race stuff erupting around my house during the last 2 weeks! I am soo very nervous, excited, anxious, happy, freaked-as the project I have been working on for almost a full year is about to ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  8 Oct 2008

New River Trail 50k...6 weeks left!

The above photo is of Pat Morrison's "locally made pottery tumblers" as an entry choice for the run. Wow! What a huge learning curve RDing The New River Trail 50k for the first time has been! This time last week the 125 runner limit was reached-I ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  1 Sep 2008

Highlands Sky 2008: a disappointing reality check

This year (June 14, 2008) was my 2nd running of the amazing and tough Highlands Sky 40 mile run out of Canaan Valley, WV. I did not originally plan on running this event in 2008 as I had my sights set on WS 100-and I thought the 2 events would be too ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  24 Jun 2008

Soreness, Bloody Knees and Stubborn Running of the LI Greenbelt 50k: May 10, 2008.

The top photo is amazing athlete Amy Palmiero Winters who also ran on Saturday! Before discussing The Long Island Greenbelt Trail 50k race I must say “Thank you Mom” for crewing me and Happy Mother’s Day! (This is the 2nd year in a row while visiting ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  13 May 2008

Mountain Hardware fall 2008 clothing promo photo shoot in Grayson Highlands State Park

The top photo was taken by photographer Stewart Smith in November 2007 in Grayson Highlands, VA when he was getting a portrait for this month’s Trail Runner…(I wasn't wearing much of Mtn. Hardware last fall-Patagonia,Smartwool and Montrail are easily ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  15 Apr 2008

Continental Divides or Streak= red wine or a cold beer?

The grey shoes to the left are the Continental Divides-the blue/grey are the Streaks (notice the differences on the soles that contribute to flexibility and traction for each...) During the last few weekends I have run some fabulously varied terrain: 9+ ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  6 Apr 2008

Way Too Cool 50k = Unconditioned, but an ultrarunner again!

“The good thing about Cool is you find out what kind of shape you're in. . . and the bad thing about Cool is you find out what kind of shape you're in.” Tim Twietmeyer. John Medinger sent me this picture he took on Saturday morning along with Tim’s ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  11 Mar 2008
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Reflections on Mount Mitchell Challenge and Black Mountain Marathon 2008

Jason Bryant, Annette Bednosky, Anne Lundblad and Kevin Lane at Saturday's start in downtown Black Mountain. Photos by Steve Dixon of Asheville Citizen-Times I know many amazing women, yet at the moment I am going to enthusiastically rant about one in ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  25 Feb 2008

Bruised bone = runner in waiting...

It's really true. I haven't run more than 10 miles during the last 2 months! On December 8th, 2007 I ran the Hellgate 100k and as I often do, took a few falls (lesson learned-more on this later) during the 66ish mile event. Though I was sore and my ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  29 Jan 2008

Race reports

Photo: Sean Andrish, race director Dennis Hamrick and me from Saturday's Rattlesnake 50k in WV I have a little blog of my own and here I will attempt to links to my WS100 '07 (June 23) race report and Rattlesnake 50k '07 (July 7) race reports: WS: http: ...

From ANNETTE BEDNOSKY, Montrail-Nathan Ultrarunning Team,  10 Jul 2007

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