When it comes to ultrarunning, Katie Schide can do it all. On August 31, the defending UTMB champion faced many of the world's best short-course ultrarunners at OCC, the UTMB World Series 50K. The 31-year-old American who has lived in France for several years, beat all but one: Toni McCann of South Africa.
Last week Allie McLaughlin jumped off a cliff in Switzerland. "I thought doing my first BASE jump would hype me up for OCC," McLaughlin says. Last year McLaughlin took the race out hot, leading until the final legs before a self-proclaimed "blow up" to finish sixth.