Trailblazer and Denali Team Up for Tough Mudder: Profile – Matt Barrett

by TonyDasilva July 10, 2012 Barefoot Running
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Our team is getting totally  psyched for Tough Mudder this weekend. This week, let’s take a look at who will take over the Mudder this time around. Name: Matt Barrett Motto: “This course is bananas!” As of right now, how are you feeling about taking on the Tough Mudder Challenge? Stoked! I can’t wait. Hanging [...]

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Trailblazer and Denali Team Up for Tough Mudder: Profile – Chris Mejias

by TonyDasilva July 9, 2012 In Stores
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Our team is getting totally  psyched for Tough Mudder this month. This week we’ll take a look at who will take over the Mudder this time around. Name: Chris Mejias Motto: “Croutons are, and always have been, the best part of a salad.” As of right now, how are you feeling about taking on the Tough [...]

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Kaitlyn Farrington: Trailblazer The North Face Athlete Interview Series

by TonyDasilva June 29, 2012 Climb
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We are more than excited, pumped, and ecstatic, to have our own interviews with some of our favorite The North Face athletes: Conrad Anker, Alex Honnold, Kaitlyn Farrington, and Jimmy Chin. Stay tuned for another next month, too! How old were you when you first got on a snowboard? How did you get into it? I was about eleven [...]

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Local CT Climbing: Deepwater Solo With Trailblazer’s Derek and Friend Silas Finch

by TonyDasilva June 13, 2012 Climb

Check out some awesome new footage from our New Haven store manager, Derek, with a friend of ours and amazing local artist, Silas Finch, taking on their first deepwater climbing solos.

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Trailblazer Interview With The North Face Athlete Jimmy Chin

by Laura May 11, 2012 Climb
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We are huge fans of Jimmy Chin. That goes without saying… Wait, I just said it.  Anyway, when we were given the opportunity to interview him we jumped on it. Huge thanks to Jimmy for being awesome enough to take the time and to The North Face for helping us reach him. – Tony Check out [...]

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Interview: Meet Alpine Climber and The North Face Athlete Mark Synnott

by Laura April 20, 2012 Climb
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To go somewhere no one has been before is a guaranteed adventure because not knowing what’s in store, the outcome is completely uncertain, and that mystery is what Mark Synnott thrives on. That and climbing. “When you are climbing you are up there and you are existing in the moment, you are really focused in [...]

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Trailblazer’s The North Face Interview Series: Anker, Honnold, Chin, Farrington

by TonyDasilva February 6, 2012 Camp
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We are more than excited, pumped, and ecstatic, to have our own interviews with some of our favorite The North Face athletes: Conrad Anker, Alex Honnold, Jimmy Chin, and Kaitlyn Farrington. If your not up to snuff on them yet, let’s give you a small background before we deliver their stories. Conrad Anker – Alpine Climber [...]

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Charlie Kelly: On Training and Sending in Climbing

by Trailblazer August 3, 2011 Climb
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Climbing is, to borrow the cliché, about experiencing a journey and not about a destination; it sounds like a worthless thing to say, but it’s so true. I for one am happiest when I know I am about to finish (send) something I’ve fallen on, and not after I’ve clipped the shuts and am being [...]

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Charlie Kelly’s Upcoming Epic Summer

by Trailblazer June 21, 2011 Climb
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If the way this summer started off is any indication of how it will play out, the only word that will be able to describe it is epic. Okay, I know—this word is way, way, overused. It does not describe that time you took your fastest loop around your block, or the time you went [...]

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Ping Pong Profile: Matt “Yorzo” Yorzinski with Special Guest (Mom)

by TonyDasilva June 2, 2011 Staff
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Trailblazer’s Ping Pong tournament is Monday and we were able to fit one last profile in beforehand. So, give a big round of applause for Matt “Yorzo” Yorzinski as we get to know him a little better. And who better to help with this process than his MOM, Linda. So, let’s also give a warm [...]

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Training Begins for the New England Relay

by Trailblazer April 5, 2011 Run
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If you read my post back in January about having gone to see Hood to Coast, a documentary about the Ragnar Relay in Oregon, then you know that I signed up to run in the New England Relay, which is happening in June. We’ve finally gotten our team registered (Strangers in a Van… With Candy!) [...]

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Are Vibrams Becoming Popular?

by Trailblazer March 29, 2011 Run

Last summer, whenever I ran a race I would see very few other runners wearing Vibrams and would get a lot of “What are those?!” questions. I’m happy to say that it’s only March and in the races that I’ve run so far, I’ve seen an increase in the number of Vibrams and the question has [...]

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Interview With Caitlin Thayer: Trailblazer’s Sponsored “Barefoot Runner”

by TonyDasilva March 9, 2011 Barefoot Running
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Caitlin Thayer is a barefoot runner with experience many of us haven’t come across yet with barefoot running. She made the switch to Vibrams last year and has gone through what I can only call, “The Process,” a bit sooner than I and so many of us. So, she took the time to explain how [...]

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Hood to Coast Relay Documentary: An Emotional Account

by Trailblazer January 14, 2011 Run
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Tuesday night was the premiere of Hood to Coast, a documentary filmed in 2008 about the Hood To Coast Relay that happens in Oregon. It was an extremely emotional movie, both because of the teams they chose to follow, and because as a runner you know how it feels to accomplish something so amazing. I [...]

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The Running Community: My Favorite Running Blogs

by Trailblazer January 11, 2011 Run
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I thought I’d share a few of my favorite running blogs with you because this is another one of my favorite parts of the running community, it’s just the virtual end of it. Over the past year or so I’ve found some blogs that I really love because the people writing them are honest, sometimes [...]

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A Trailblazer Athlete’s New Year’s Resolutions

by Trailblazer December 28, 2010 Trailblazer Athletes
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“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”  ~Oscar Wilde How many of us make resolutions and on New Year’s Day we start them and on January 15th or February 1st we end them? I know I’ve done that at least once… or five times. I slip [...]

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Christopher Martin’s Local Race Day Recap

by Trailblazer December 16, 2010 Trailblazer Athletes
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If you remember from my first blog post in August when I set some running goals for myself, goal #2 was to run a sub-30 minute 5k. I am proud to say that I can cross that one off the list! This past weekend at the Christopher Martin’s Run for Children 5k I finished in [...]

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