Evgeniy Gorkov's Running Page

Бешеной собаке семь вёрст не крюк (loosely translated from Russian folklore: extra seven miles is nothing to a mad dog)

Email: evgeniy.gorkov@yahoo.com
Mobile: +7 985 767 4354

• We runners knew it all along — it was running that made humans out of apes. Now, there's rigorous academic argument to support it.
• Some tips on hot desert racing, based on recent experiences in Gobi and Sahara
• My blog from a recent cold race, 2006 Antarctica Ice Marathon

Past Races and Adventures

Date	Place	Format	Bib #	Links/Notes
2001	Barcelona, Spain	42k/26m	3122
2001	Moscow, Russia	42k/26m	348
2002	Helsinki, Finland	42k/26m	4296
2002	Chicago, USA	42k/26m	8687
2002	Huntsville, TX, USA	50k/31m	668
2003	Boston, MA, USA	42k/26m	7802
2003	North Pole jump	5 thousand ft vertical	n/a
2003	Lapland, Sweden	100k/62m	60
2003	New York, NY, USA	42k/26m	5064
2004	Stratford-upon-Avon, UK	42k/26m	2513
2004	Blackpool, UK	42k/26m	764
2004	London to Brighton, UK	87k/54m	76
2004	Richmond, VA, USA	42k/26m	1055	PB 2:57:20
2005	Tarim Basin, China	250k/7 days	149	#1
2005	Reno, NV, USA	42k/26m	114	#1
2005	Western Desert, Egypt	250k/7 days	52
2006	Patriot Hills, Antarctica	42k/26m	2	#1
2007	Geneva, Switzerland	42k/26m	387
2007	Ashford, CT, USA	42k/26m (trail)	73
2007	Hovsgol Lake, Mongolia	100k/62m (trail)	05
2007	Atacama Desert, Chile	250k/7 days	25
2007	Inverness, Scotland	42k/26m	2252
February 2008	Sapa, Vietnam	250k/7 days	26
May 2008	Collegiate Peaks, Colorado, US	25 miles (trail)	na

Links to personal pages of remarkable athletes (and fellow-nut cases) I met out there:
• Ben Saunders
• Terri Schneider
• Ray Zahab
• Rosie Swale-Pope (Rosie I haven't actually met yet — somehow, I missed her when she went through the 9,000k of Russia, but what a remarkable adventure anyway!)