I ran the 2009 TjurRuset terrain race on Saturday and although my intention was to just have fun with the event, I wound up learning more about myself as a runner than I had in many years. 10 truly grueling kilometers of the annual run called “Tjur Ruset”, which literally translates into “The Bull Rush”. Essentially, the one-off design of the route  through forrest, marsh and boulders reduced most of us to appear as if we were indeed, a stampede of nervous bulls who were escaping from a slaughterhouse.

This year’s course was the toughest one in memory for anybody I interviewed. The event location doesn’t change, but the routes and *edit- changes every year, but kept secret until weeks before each start.-edit end* Additional obstacles are brilliantly arranged to be about as difficult to run as possible. Mother Nature decided to kick it all up a More >