Mr Trail Safety Speaks!

Aug 1990:  26mi AC100 training run: Chantry Flats to Rose Bowl. Here arriving at Mt Lowe Rd. And that's Dan Harshburger, not me. Effective Immediately May 13 2026 Willem Pennings is now the Group Admin of the Facebook ultrarunning group page. It's time for me to step down. He's a standup straight shooter who doesn’t suffer fools gladly.  My involvement in ultras is now limited to photography. My first ultra was 1989. First 50mi Jan 1990. First 100 was Angeles Crest 100, 1991. My last ultra was Malibu 50k Jan 2020. When I joined this group in 2011, ultras were changing rapidly from Before Times incarnations. Add to that the rise of the socials. This group started in a good place, but was swiftly targeted by bullshit scammers [bogus RayBans, anyone?], fake names, malicious aliases, dubious coaching hustles and all the rest.  I became an Admin, started cleaning that up, assuming direct control in April 2013. I learned on the fly how to effectively choke off the garbage and s...

A typical bogus candidate profile. [revised Jan 30, 2015] When I first wrote this, I was coming to grips with the staggering number of fake profiles in Facebook Landia applying to the ultrarunning Facebook group. Note lower-case U. Since this, I've become ruthless in dealing with this problem. My first line of inquiry into an ultra-candidate is UltraSignUp.com, a great bullshit detector. And if there's any further doubt, I'll look on RealEndurance.com . Here's the current ABOUT. It's edited down from the original, and still nobody reads it. Too bad. This non-commercial site is about ultrarunning only. This growing group of informed ultrarunners is an excellent knowledge base. Please share your ultrarunning stories, adventures, goals, race reports, and questions. Nothing focuses the mind like a cut-off. Everyone here has passed that simple test. 1] MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS, in effect since April 2013 verified completion of at least one [1] 50k via Ult...