Growing up in the country gave Barbara Robben the chance to run free, and she keeps running, even in her 80s. Robben estimates that she has run in more than 2,800 races — including 44 Dipsea Races — ...

Porter Davis, who could probably talk anyone into anything, decided recently to try to persuade an 80-year-old man who had never jogged more than a mile in his life into running a punishing 7.4-mile ...

MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Since 1905, athletes from all across the Bay Area and even around the world have run in the Dipsea Race, the annual 7.5 mile trail race that goes from Mill Valley to ...

Think of it as Mill Valley’s annual tribal rite. The one day a year that downtown, the crook in the elbow of Mt. Tamalpais, awakes to a flood of hopeful, hardy runners. Well-wishers cheer them. Town ...

In your first steps on the Dipsea Trail, you walk - or run - in the strides of ghosts, shadows and legends, just as thousands have done over the years. This Sunday is the 100th running of the Dipsea ...

The 102 nd Dipsea, the oldest trail running race in the country, is in the books. On a scorching hot Sunday morning in Marin County, California, 72-year-old Hans Schmid (pictured) -- who didn't start ...