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  A passion driven lifestyle best describes Gill and Francesca’s roles as professional runners. Their active lives include beiing featured in the Discovery Channel program "Architecture and Design of Man and Woman" VIEW CLIP , owning Bad to the Bone Endurance Sports and Charlottesville Running Company , hosting the radio show "Get Moving Charlottesville" on 106.1 "The Corner" , Corporate Speaking and regularly Coaching runners and walkers of all backgrounds. Above all, they love and enjoy the elemental simplicity and austerity of nature and have made their life's mission to share this passion with others. Please feel free to contact us
Gill, Francesca and the best dog in the world, SAM!
Gill and Francesca's Discovery Channel program "Architecture and Design of Man and Woman"
Gill and Francesca's weekly Radio Show - "Get Moving Charlottesville"
GILL - CONTE SPONSORS As professional athletes we work hard to build relationships with great companies offering the BEST products. Please see the dedicated pages about Gill and Francesca on our sponsor's websites:
2010 Western States 100 Miler pre-race "Mug Shot" other supporters...
Gill and Francesca featured in the book "Running Through the Wall" - Neal Jamision
Gill on the cover of the "Great Outdoors" magazine
Gill and Francesca have created "One of the Best New Marathons in the USA" - RUNNER'S WORLD MAGAZINE "Thanks to the efforts of Gill and Francesca, Charlottesville has become one of the Top Eight Running Towns" - TRAIL RUNNER MAGAZINE
Gill and Francesca named "Event Directors of the Month" by Active.com!
Read Francesca's interview for the C-Ville Weekly newspaper...
Gill recognized as "One of the Five Most influential trail runners" by
Check out the fun article in the HOOK magazine on our "Pimp Your Feet" shirts. This is a fun slogam that Gill and Francesca came up with have these shirts in our store; Charlottesville Running Company. CLICK HERE to read the HOOK article.
Some of Gill and Francesca's Most Excellent Adventures! Just before the start of our Smokey Mountain National Park adventure! This is a run that takes you 70 miles along the AT with only one road access point for support. For some reason we chose Feburary; not our smartest move ever as we had to endure snow, sleet and winds at Clingmans Dome over 60 mph.
Western States Endurance Run - 100 Miles Gill heading down a VERY hot Duncan Canyon. A special thanks to our friend and terrific photographer Glenn Tachiyama for this picture. Miwok 100K One of the most beautiful races in the country. The race is run through the Marin headlands of California. This year I learned the true meaning of the Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) quote: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco!". The race is usually a good tune up for Western States with warms temps and similar terrian. This year it was very cold, rainy and windy...
USATF 50 Mile National Championship Francesca wins the USATF 50 Mile National Championship! Tussey Mountain, PA
Promise Land 50K Great race and beautiful course. The weather for the 9th running of this race was the hottest to date, temps rose well into the 90's! Rattlesnake 50K Gill Wins the Master's Title Very challenging course with 10 tough cimbs and plenty of HEAT!
Celebrating at the finish of the 135 mile Badwater Endurance Run, Death Valley
The Mohican Endurance Run, 50 Miler Mohican Wilderness Area, Loudonville, OH Gill - Finished 2nd Overall Good event, however they don't really mark the race course so you have to remember which color trail you should be running on....If your're colored blind I wouldn't recommend this race! :-)
The North Face Endurance Challenge 50K Championships Bear Mountain, New York Gill - Finished 4th overall and won the Masters Title. This was the most rocky 50K I've ever run! Lots of elevation gain with most climbs going vertical. USATF Montana 50 Mile Trail Championship at Le Grizz, Hungry Horse, MT
Gill - 7:58:24, good for 10th Place. I had a tough day, however if running 50 mile races was always easy we wouldn't do them :-) This was the 26th year of the race and it takes place in one of the most beautful parts of the country. You run just outside of Glacier National Park with the towering mountain peaks of Glacier as your back drop for the entire race.
Mohican 50 Mile Trail Race Gill-Second Overall "Lost by 2 minutes, but still fun!!"
Cascade Crest 100 Mile Trail Race Francesca-Second female, 11th overall - "What a beautiful race!"
National USATF 50K Road Championship Gill - Masters Runner Up
Oxfam 100K Team Trail Race, London England First Team Mixed Division (400 total teams) 14 hours, 42 minutes
Leadville Trail 100 Mile Endurance Run, Leadville Colorado Great Race! All above 10,000 feet, high point is almost 13,000 feet over Hope Pass
Lean Horse 50 Mile Endurance Run, Black Hills, South Dakota Finished Second Overall Cleaning up in one of the beautiful creeks after the race.
Bull Run 50 Mile Endurance Run Francesca Female Champion! and 11th overall out of 340 Runners
Bull Run 50 Mile Endurance Run
The gang at the finish of the Marine Corp Mud Run in Roanoke, VA
Holiday Lake 50K
Francesca 8th overall out of 205 runners
USATF Georgia 50K Championship Finished 5th overall, Time 4:04:32
Lower Potomac Marathon Francesca - Female Winner!
Badwater Ultra Endurance Race 135 miles through Death Valley to Mt Whitney. Sunrise on the 11 mile climb to the finish at Mt Whitney portal.
Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run Squaw Valley to Auburn, CA Gill and Francesca just before the start
Summit of Mount Whitney 14,496 feet, highest mountain in the continental United States
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