Boom Run: It's all Erdmann
Not that Mandy Erdmann needs a head start. The world-record holder in the women's Boom Run already has five Games medals in the event, and she credits her bowlegs with helping her grip the sides of the pitching, yawing logs.

Boom! Salzman, Martin mix it up
J.R. Salzman of Rochester, Minn., collected his second gold medal of the day Saturday when he and his teammate, Shana Martin of Madison, Wis., blew through the competition at the Mixed Doubles Boom Run contest at the Great Outdoor Games.

Bow Wow Boom Run? Wow!
When ESPN this spring asked Great Outdoor Games timber sports organizer Rob Scheer to suggest new sports, he thought of his black Labrador Tucker. The result is the Bow Wow Boom Run, which debuted as a demonstration event Saturday at the Games.

Fischers run away with Mixed Doubles Boom Run gold
Luck favors the prepared, supposedly. So when cousins Tanya and Jamie Fischer, who train together, were paired in the random draw, they immediately were among the favored teams in the ESPN Great Outdoor Games Mixed Doubles Boom Run.

Hoeschler Boom Runs to gold
Judy Hoeschler was shocked to hear what came out of her daughter's mouth after the women's boom run practice. "She said, 'Mom, I'm going to win this thing,'" Judy recalled. Sixteen-year-old Abi Hoeschler then went on to win the Boom Run gold medal.

Rematch: Fischer wins Boom Run
The problem with racing Jamie Fischer in the Boom Run - and everyone says this - is that he's too fast across the logs to outrun. You need the guy to fall. Which, normally, shouldn't be a problem on the pitching, heaving timbers.

Salzman rolls with the punches
Right about now, J.R. Salzman is probably running himself raw in the highest altitudes he can find in the northern nub of Idaho.He's there with his sister, fellow logroller Tina Bosworth, hoping to simulate Reno's 6,000-foot elevation.