Author: Ultimate Direction

Comedian Jon Glaser, host of the show Jon Glaser Loves Gear, ran to the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to show off the gear he's using to train for a trail half marathon, including our Signature Series 4.0 Ultra Vest! Watch the segment and follow Jon Glaser.

Ultimate Direction Signature Races are ten events - from South Africa to Italy, New Zealand, Colorado and much more - celebrating the iconic places and people of the sport of skyrunning, ultrarunning, trail and mountain. Like the game-changing Ultimate Direction Signature Series vests and vestas, Signature Races are original and innovative. The first Signature Race this year was the Tarawera Ultra in Rotorua, New Zealand.…

Ultimate Direction ambassador Jessie Young recently won her 4th Ski Mountaineering National Championship in five years. She and husband Max Taam had their first baby in 2018. We asked Jessie about how she maintains a high level of performance while raising their son Ryder. How does being a mom-athlete work logistically? What are her strategies? Read on. Ultimate Direction: As a now 4x Ski Mountaineering…

Welcome to Part 2 in our series designed to motivate and inspire you in 2019. Next up: How to Prepare for an FKT.  –– It's the start of a new year. As runners we're busy conceiving new goals and challenges to motivate us in training and racing. Targeting and preparing for specific events will certainly occupy a percentage of your training but what about designing…

Among our ambassadors, Anna Frost is joining people like Jenny Jurek, Emma Roca, Tara Warren, Jessie Young and Michelle Yates in becoming a professional athlete with kids. A hallmark of Anna's career has been her willingness to race and travel almost constantly. So how does a person used to the flexibility of taking off on a whim and being concerned firstly with their own health…

I’ve always packed pretty light but rolling off a 15 hour flight with little more than a backpack took packing "light" to a new level.  As Ryan Ghelfi and I jogged toward the Geneva train station with everything we needed for the next week on our backs, I felt a new level of freedom, and just a little bit of fear. Did I pack enough…

Running is boring. Dreadfully. At least that’s what a young Gina Lucrezi thought when she imagined plugging away mile after mile, measuring time in worn layers of rubber and sweat. This was before becoming a collegiate All-American (10 times). Before becoming a collegiate national champion in the 1500 meter. Before the 10k’s and the half marathons. Before discovering trail running. Before the 50k’s, 50 milers,…

Ultimate Direction ambassadors took a clean sweep last weekend at Steamboat, Colorado's Run Rabbit Run 100 miler. We won the men's race with Jason Schlarb and won the women's race with Michele Yates. Right behind her in second was Emma Roca. Here are the Ultimate Direction products these ambassadors wore with some comments about the race. 1st place woman: Michele Yates UD products used: Ultra…

Ultimate Direction Ambassador Karel Sabbe today has set a new supported fastest known time (FKT) on the Appalachian Trail, breaking Scott Jurek and Karl Meltzer's by 5 and 4 days, respectively. After sleeping about 100 miles from the finish on the night of August 26, 2018 Karel ran all day on the 27th and through the night to complete his AT FKT about 2pm on August…

The typical Colorado Front Range trailrunner seems to operate off a fairly standard summer bucket list: High Lonesome, Pawnee Buchanan, Four Pass and a smattering of peaks that usually stem from these routes. There’s nothing wrong with these routes - they’re absolutely classics for many reasons: banger views, well-trodden trails and accessible enough that you could even knock them out before or after work. There’s…