RUN UP (AND DOWN) MOUNTAINS

Turn boring training runs into wild scavenger hunts.

BY LISA JHUNG

A YEAR AFTER graduating from the Air Force Academy, where he was a standout track and cross-country runner, Jim Walmsley picked up a hiking book. It was 2013, and he was living in Great Falls, Montana, within striking distance of Glacier National Park and Helena National Forest. “I’d figure out routes that ended at a lake, a mountaintop, or a waterfall and would run the routes like a scavenger hunt,” he says. “I didn’t know trail running was a sport at that time, but I liked the sense of adventure.” Fast-forward seven years and the 30-year-old holds records for many top trail events, including the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run (14 hours, 9 minutes, 28 seconds) and the 42-mile Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim trail (5 hours, 55 minutes, 20 seconds). He even…

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Men's Health (Digital) - 1 Issue, Jul/Aug 2020

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