Craig Romano – Guidebook Author and Outdoors Writer and Photographer

Running the OG Yeti 100 Mile Endurance Run in Abingdon Virginia was never in my plans. I had signed up back in May for the Tunnel Hill 50 mile in November; and running a 100 mile race one month before my target 50 was definitely not in my training schedule! My original 100 mile target was the Oregon Cascades 100 in July. But forest fires put an end to that plan. The race ...

Running relays have their disciples. I’m not one of them. Yes, they’re an incredible way to bond with your fellow runners, make new friends, and compete as a team in a sport that is usually all about individual achievement. But they’re hard to coordinate. Hard to put a team together. And hard to keep the team together (someone always bails). In my four decades of distance...

This body fueled by potatoes and maple syrup!

I was fast in my past running life. One of my proudest accomplishments was qualifying for and running the Boston Marathon. And I did it after less than a year of marathon running. But I was 29 then and training at my most intense level—it was how I got through one of the roughest patches of ...

I wasn’t planning on running 50 miles around Eastern Washington’s Mount Spokane State Park on July 25th. I had my heart set on running the Oregon Cascades 100 mile (OC 100) race on that weekend. It was to be my second 100 mile race and I’d been training for it since January....

Casper is a trail town. Trails have prominently played a role in the history of this community of 60,000, the second largest city in Wyoming. And this small city located along the North Platte River at the base of Casper Mountain is flush with biking and hiking trails. Wyoming touts itself as the Cowboy State, where horseback riders are as ubiquitous as pronghorns on the...