The HPM community is absolutely amazing and beautifully wild! We cannot express how much love and appreciation we have for each and every one of you incredible humans for your support and patience as we've been working tirelessly behind the scenes to find a new home for our 5th annual Last Runner Standing Event ... a community gathering, trail running party and straight up National Holiday to many!

Good news ... we are officially gathering again on the 3rd weekend in September at Historic Rural Hill just North of Charlotte for Rewild: Last Runner Standing Event on 9/19/26! Here's some additional context on the new venue and the new name ...

We’ve been riding high over the past week … South Fork Sampler Adventure Race was another massive success, our 6th BDay celebration with our funky friends at Great Wagon Run Club was another pinata and champagne soaked rager, an HPM supported 5000mi bikepacking trip is kicking off this week and Global Running Day was Wednesday. Behind the scenes, however, things have been a little chaotic. 

Across the Years is an Aravaipa Running event offering timed (6-day, 72hr, 48hr, 24hr, 12hr, 6hr), fixed distance (200mi, 100mi, 100K, Marathon), and a Last Runner Standing event at the turn of the new year. It’s a loop course (1.4108 miles with 23 feet of elevation gain per loop) around the Spring Training facility for the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners. 

Although I’ve done a few dozen marathons and ultras (mainly 50Ks), I walk rather than run, so I must choose races carefully based upon time cutoffs that I can achieve. Since most 100-mile events have cutoffs, I’d never make, perhaps Aravaipa’s 6-day event would give me enough time to cover 100 miles and get that coveted buckle. I convinced/coerced Sally - who’s a good runner but had never done anything longer than a marathon – into going along, so she registered for the 3-day race with a goal of 50 miles.

After the race, I still find it incredibly hard to decide if I should focus on our own experiences or to simply marvel at the fellow athletes, the event, and the stories that unfolded throughout this amazing experience. I guess I’ll just do a little of both! 

Streaking can mean wildly different things depending on where you are in your life … true story, as a William & Mary undergrad, I was informed and intrigued of the student triathlon tradition that included “Streaking the Sunken Gardens” … I’ll let you guess if I completed this triathlon or not. But in the running world or more broadly, the endurance sports world, “streaking” refers maintaining consecutive days of activity. The total number of days is all dependent on how long you want to, or can, maintain your “streak”. The beauty of “streaking” is that you can set your own parameters, find motivation in your own way, and complete that goal on your own terms.