trailed replica Tag Heuer Aerospace Advantage watches behind Anton Krupicka of Boulder

In a nail-biting finish, Geoff Roes of Juneau, Alaska shattered the Western States 100 course record by nearly half an hour, Ultrarunning reports.Roes, who posted a 15:07:04 time at the 37th annual Auburn, California endurance run, trailed replica Tag Heuer Aerospace Advantage watches behind Anton Krupicka of Boulder, Colorado and Kilian Jornet of Spain for much of the day before charging ahead at mile 89. Roes and Krupicka ran neck and neck through Highway 49 crossing (mile 93.3) before Roes ultimately pulled ahead and opened a six-minute lead which he maintained until the end. The newrecord replaces seven-time champion Scott Jurek's 2004 time of 15:36:27.Despite temperature highs of 93 degrees F, a record 325 racers finished the race within the 30-hour limit.--Shauna Sweeney

Outside correspondent Steven Rinella wrote this months feature Grand Theft Cattle.1)How did you get your start?Well, I intended to be a professional fur-trapper. I trapped for 10 years, selling the hides and everything. Muskrats, raccoons, coyote, mink, beaver, otter, fox. When I figured out you couldn’t make an actual living as a replica Tag Heuer Aquaracer watches professional trapper anymore, I decided to become a professional trapping writer. In fact, the first article I ever wrote and sold was to a magazine called Trapper and Predator Caller. One thing led to another and I began writing about many other things and never wrote about trapping again. But that’s what got me rolling.2) So trapping leads to writing...How?My brother had this Volkswagen van and was working for the EPA one summer, counting salmon in the Columbia River.

We drove everywhere fishing for trout. During my wanderings, I ended up in Missoula and discovered there was a school there. It seemed like a great town. I went out and got drunk, hit all the bars. I said, ‘Man, this place is fun.’ And the girls were great. They all had skinned-up knees and were coming off the river. I said, ‘Hey, I gotta replica Tag Heuer Ayrton Senna watches move here.’So I went down to the school and saw they had a graduate program, not knowing it was one of the top-rated programs in the country. I think they let me in as an experiment. I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.Ian Frazier influenced me to an almost embarrassing degree. He was actually instrumental in getting me started in magazine writing. Books I like: John McPhee’s Coming Into the Country, Michael Herr’s Dispatches about the Vietnam War, and Evan S. Connell’s Son of the Morning Star—the greatest book about the American West.