The Animal Camp is an extreme ultrarunning club founded by its namesake, Josh "the Animal" Dennis.

If you call your friends to organize a training run when you hear reports of a tropical storm hitting your favorite stretch of singletrack, or equate "flood warnings" with "creek crossings," this is the the club for you.

Our extreme athletes are training to push the limits of ultrarunning. Passion, endurance, and a hunger for adventure are the name of the game. If it doesn't hurt, sign us up for something that will.  We are not seeking volume of membership, we are seeking to become a meeting place for extreme ultrarunners who share an interest in the more hardcore aspects of the sport.

Based in the Philadelphia area, our short-term goals are to:

• spread interest in extreme ultrarunning;
• provide a forum for athletes to share information, plan training programs and organize training runs; and
• foster the closeknit community that is exteme ultrarunning. 

A long-term goal is to organize and host a race or races that capture our unique brand of ultrarunning- what we call Animal Camp style.

Welcome to The Animal Camp - enter at your own risk. 

The Animal Camp - RUN LIKE AN ANIMAL!

THE ANIMAL CAMP IS SPONSORED BY:

PODIATRIST DR. LEE COHEN

drleecohen.com

SEE CURRENT EVENTS PAGE FOR SOME NEW UPDATES, INCLUDING THE GRINDSTONE 100!

Next training run:  Sunday, February 14th on the Appalachian Trail in NJ- meet at Dunnfield Natural Area parking lot at 8:00 am.  This will be a 50k distance training run with plenty of rocks. 

TAC's 2010 race schedule will be published under the Schedule tab soon.  Highlights will include  the HAT 50k, McNaughton 200 (VT), Massanutten 100, Mohican 100, Leadville 100, Philly 24-hr and Grindstone 100, just to name a few.

Remember, DNF'ers sleep in- get out there and train.
 


 

The Animal Camp - committed to going hard, or going home.