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St. Croix Running Company St. Croix Running Company coordinates several foot trail races in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The mind will tell you to stop long before your body needs to. At Icebox, the clock decides when you’re done.240 or 480 ...
10/11/2026

The mind will tell you to stop long before your body needs to. At Icebox, the clock decides when you’re done.

240 or 480 minutes. Just-under-5-mile loop. Whitetail Ridge, River Falls. Saturday, November 7.

Pick a number. Register. Make hard the norm.

Registration closes before race day, and we’ve filled up before.

When you were ten, the creek at the end of the block was an expedition. Nobody gave you a course map. You just picked a ...
10/04/2026

When you were ten, the creek at the end of the block was an expedition. Nobody gave you a course map. You just picked a place and went.

This week on the blog, Chris writes about getting that feeling back. These days he rarely races. He’d rather make up his own adventures with some water and a credit card, using a string of Kwik Trips across neighboring towns as checkpoints only he knows about. That same idea once took him across Minnesota.

The runs we remember most aren’t always the ones with a finish chute. They’re the ones where we drew the line on the map ourselves.

So this fall, plan one. Run to the bakery two towns over. Plan a loop that crosses the St. Croix twice. Find the trailhead you’ve driven past a hundred times. Then come back and tell us where you went.

And if you’d rather have someone else draw the map this weekend, Trout Brook is Saturday.

Full story in the comments. 👇

Every race, there are two groups at the start line.The first timers. Nervous, excited, maybe talked into it by a friend ...
09/27/2026

Every race, there are two groups at the start line.

The first timers. Nervous, excited, maybe talked into it by a friend last week. They've never run a step on the trails, and they come back across the finish line a little bit different.

And the regulars. They've done this every weekend for years, and they're just as eager to get out there, challenge themselves, and welcome whoever is standing next to them.

This week on the blog, I wrote about how these two groups make up our trail community, how each one makes the other stronger, and how together they help it grow.

If you’ve been curious about trail running, the Trout Brook 10-Miler on October 10 at Willow River State Park is a great place to start. Looking for something longer but more laid-back? The Icebox 240/480 on November 7 in River Falls lets you pick 4 or 8 hours and run as many loops as you like.

Read the full post at the link in the comments. We’d love to see you out there, whether it's your first trail race or your hundredth. 🌲

Packet pickup opens at 6. There are cars in the lot at 5:30. Nobody in them is warming up. 🌄They are standing around in ...
09/20/2026

Packet pickup opens at 6. There are cars in the lot at 5:30. Nobody in them is warming up. 🌄

They are standing around in puffy jackets holding coffee, finding each other.

Fifteen years of directing trail races and that is still the part that gets me. The hills got harder. The people got better. 🏃‍♂️

New post on trail running camaraderie, and why single track makes friends in a way a flat fast road course never quite can. Link in bio.

Three more this fall 👇
📍 In Yan Teopa, Sept 26
📍 Trout Brook 10, Oct 10
📍 Icebox 240/480, Nov 7

Trail races don’t happen without volunteers, and we need you for In Yan Teopa on Saturday, 9/26.We’re looking for help w...
09/16/2026

Trail races don’t happen without volunteers, and we need you for In Yan Teopa on Saturday, 9/26.

We’re looking for help with:
🏃 Registration: check runners in and get them to the start
🥤 Aid Station: keep runners fueled and cheer them on
🏁 Finish Line: time tracking and greeting
🧹 Sweeping: follow the last runner and make sure everyone gets home

You don’t need running experience. Just show up, spend a morning outside, and be part of a great day on the trails.

Grab a spot here 👉 https://www.stcroixrunningcompany.com/volunteer-inyanteopa

My Superior 100 didn’t go the way I planned, and the new blog post explains why I am fine with that.Eight miles in, the ...
09/13/2026

My Superior 100 didn’t go the way I planned, and the new blog post explains why I am fine with that.

Eight miles in, the day was already asking more of me than I had planned to give it. A while past Split Rock, I came up on another runner who was in real trouble, and the choice in front of me was not much of a choice. I walked with him to the next aid station. By the time we got into Beaver Bay in a thunderstorm, my hundred was over.

The post is the honest version of that decision, including the part where I tried to bargain my way out of it, and the part where letting the race go felt like relief.

The medic looked at him, and his family took him home. That is the part that matters.

Huge thanks to everyone out on that course, to the aid station crews, and to the medics who make this sport possible. And to the friends we got to cheer across the finish line all weekend. That was a pretty good way to spend the rest of it.

Full post linked in the comments.

Taper week does something strange to your head.For months, the training itself keeps the nerves quiet. There's always an...
09/06/2026

Taper week does something strange to your head.

For months, the training itself keeps the nerves quiet. There's always another long run to think about. Then the taper hits, the miles disappear, and all that leftover energy has nowhere to go except straight into your thoughts, where it turns into anxiety, and sometimes into a quiet search for a way out.

Chris wrote about this ahead of his Superior 100 start this week, the twinges that show up out of nowhere, the small aches that suddenly feel like evidence, and the other runners who told him it's more universal than he expected.

If you've got a race on the calendar this fall, whether it's Icebox, Trout Brook, or In Yan Teopa, this one's worth a read before your own taper week hits.

(Link in comments)

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