Gary Robbins

  • WIN your way in – Red Bull Divide & Conquer – June 8th – North Vancouver

    The second annual Red Bull Divide and Conquer will be taking place on Vancouver’s North Shore next Saturday, June 8th. We had an absolute blast in year one and we’re stoked to bring this top notch international event back to North Van again in 2013! Check out how much fun we had in the rain… →

  • A 100 Mile Journey Around Mt. Fuji

    I do not have a record of who took this picture and shared it with me. If you recognize the image please notify me so I can give proper photo credits The first climb of the race held approximately 1600 feet / 500 meters of elevation gain and it began just two miles in. After… →

  • Run Real Fast At UTMF – Music That Matters

    The Great Buddha Kamakura – Age 761 Years – Height 13.4 meters – Weight 121 tonnes I’ve gotten into the habit through my last few long distance runs, usually of 100 miles in length or more, of making a play list called “Run Real Fast At (insert race/fkt attempt here)” Music is a powerful motivator… →

  • Up To Here (PhotoBlog)

    The last six weeks have gone really well. Though I’ve wanted to blog a bunch and I have numerous postings written in my head, the untold story of being a race director (especially of multiple events now) is that you just generally spend a lot of time working on your computer. Given that I’ve never… →

  • Music To My Ears

    I was recently interviewed for Talk Ultra and it went live on Friday. Here’s the link with full podcast details. As it lists in the Show Notes I pick up the mic at around 2h30m into the show. I’ve never been one to train or run with music, though I love music, strive to discover… →

  • My New Mantra

    New for 2013, Salomon Sense Mantra – my favorite! A mantra I started using in late 2012 was ‘fight’. That’s it. Just that one word. Fight. I started using this for the first time during the Mountain Masochist 50 miler in early November. It was my third time running the race and there were some… →

  • Hibernating 101

    After three full weeks away from running I’m chomping at the bit to get back at it again. Why three full weeks off this early in the season you may ask? Well basically my season breaks down to HURT which happened on Jan 19th, then UTMF which at 156km is all but 100 miles, on… →

  • Guest Speaker – VIMFF Sunday Feb 10th

    This Sunday February 10th I’ll be a featured speaker at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival’s “Trail Running Show” Gary Robbins: Fueled By Cheese – Trail Running in the Alps VIMFF Trail Running Show Sunday, February 10, 7:30 pm (doors 6:30 pm) Centennial Theatre MAP Buy Tickets Here – www.VIMFF.org The Ultra Trail Du Mont… →

  • HURT 100 Race Report

    My HURT 100 race report was hosted over on iRunFar.com, in case you missed it here’s the link A few images from the race and some of our adventures post race GR →

  • HURT Follow Along + Current Course Conditions

    You can follow along on the live webcast on Sat as of 6am Hawaii time (two hours behind PST). Umm, I’m using a tablet app to post this and I can’t seem to link specifically to the webcast, here’s the address that you may have to copy and past to get it to go: http://www.ultralive.net/hurt100/webcast.php… →