Daily News and Calendar, Friday, January 23

Read this: The burden of self-improvement. Stop freaking out about all the little stuff and focus on what matters.

Making these today after Kindergarten: Home made energy bars.

Interesting: The correlation between brain strength and physical endurance. I’m anxious to see the results from the elite study.

So you want to be a professional adventurer? Start here.

Speaking of adventurers, I believe this little-known French woman from the 19th century is my favorite. What a badass!

Aside from the cost, 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days sounds like fun. This guy is almost done.

He trained to go sub 3, tried to back out of it, got slapped around by his wife, and ended up killing it on the trails. Great report!

Kathy’s ten tips for sustainable running.

This guy’s progression from smoker to super fast marathoner to winner of the Ant-freakin-arctica 100k has been pretty awesome.

I’m obsessed with improving my downhill speed and abilities, and Henry does a great job analyzing it all.

Aah John, ya can’t leave it there! So what did you find? Which trail did you take?

The letsrun braintrust analyzes Sage’s training regimen, he responds, and the conversation changes quickly.

He doesn’t like running, but he does it every day because he knows he needs it. Good stuff from the No Meat Athlete.

AJW taking some strategic time off from running to reboot. Good choice…and great choice in beer. That pilsner is awesome.

Ten things she learned while running a hundred miles. I didn’t know armadillos could hop either.

I want this shoe and I want it now. Boost is awesome, and this thing looks like it’d be fine on light trails. Any of you industry folks tried it yet?

Surprise at Dubai! The win goes to a near rookie who PRed by a few minutes and grabbed the biggest prize in marathon majors after Bekele DNFs. Cool.

I really want to go to Utah and hit the trails with Cory and his dog Aunt Jackie.

When Scotty and I first heard about skimo, these California boys thought it was some sort of new music. Nope, it’s just one of the best workouts you can do to improve your trail running.

Cool video featuring individual stories at Across the Years.

Weekend Calendar

Beast of Burden 50/100 in freezin cold New York.
Coldwater Rumble 100/52/etc in not-so freezing Arizona.
50k snowshoe race in Utah. Ooooouch.
Spooner’s Cove 50k on the Central California coast.

13 Responses to "Daily News and Calendar, Friday, January 23"

Tha Messenjah says:

January 23, 2015 at 5:38 am

The link to Keith Whyte is wrong 🙂

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Emir says:

January 23, 2015 at 6:15 am

I refuse to click on your letsrun links anymore. 🙂

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1. Rachel says:
  
  January 23, 2015 at 10:52 am
  
  Emir, click on the lets run link…Its actually pretty funny when two pages in he actually responds to their comments about him. Its all fun and games until the guy you trash actually reads and responds (They make fun of his 8-9 min/mile pace. His response “oh you mean yesterday in the 3 feet of snow and ice?) HA! Props to Sage-making them eat their words 😉
  
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MylesMyles says:

January 23, 2015 at 7:11 am

Good letsrun post on Sage – nice to see him to respond. Any word on if he’s going to be wearing Hokas for the race? Or will he be wearing another shoe or a Hoka racing flat prototype?

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Paul B says:

January 23, 2015 at 8:38 am

The first article is great. It’s nice to see someone want to get back to the basics. Nike has always said it best. Just do it. No need to over think and keep trying new things all the time because someone said this brand is better than that brand. Get a pair of shoes that fit and put something on the covers the dangly bits and go run.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  January 23, 2015 at 8:45 am
  
  I agree. I’m going to read that post each week.
  (I’m also interviewing Duncan about the post, so stay tuned as we go in depth.)
  
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2. Meghan says:
  
  January 23, 2015 at 5:21 pm
  
  I liked it A LOT too Paul!
  
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Nate says:

January 23, 2015 at 10:10 am

http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bodywork/performance-plate/How-Alcohol-Negatively-Affects-Athletic-Performance.html?utm_reader=feedly&utm_content=buffereb277&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I expected to see this today. Glad I can share – don’t think it will change your thoughts on beer. Doesn’t change mine 🙂

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  January 23, 2015 at 10:34 am
  
  Come on, Nate. I posted that on Tuesday! Gotta catch up! 🙂
  
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Isaac says:

January 23, 2015 at 4:11 pm

Props for putting up with the short sighted wisdom on LetsRun message boards.
Had to stop reading.

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Meghan says:

January 23, 2015 at 5:22 pm

Anyone else find it funny how at the beginning of the Across the Years the joker… I think it’s Ed is “running” and the guy next to him is walking… SAME pace 😉

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1. Paul B says:
  
  January 24, 2015 at 2:55 pm
  
  Meghan, I know you probably don’t have any bad meaning to your comment, and this is just some of my thoughts to it.
  It is interesting that the guy is walking same speed. I’ve had experience being the walker in that kind of situation. I had to do an early start for a 50k at the beginning of last year due to a calf injury and not being able to run as much. So my plan was to walk most and run some. it turned out that I was walking the same pace as several of the runners. I even had a conversation with a couple of them about it. We are all at different levels, which I know, but now have more of an understanding of the back of the packers. They work their asses off to make cut offs and finish. Here I was just walking. Kinda felt bad, as I kept thinking how much I would be going through mentally if roles were reversed. I say us midpackers kinda have it easy. We know we aren’t gonna finish in the top so many of us don’t push as much as we could sometimes, and we are also never fighting cutoffs so we don’t have that much to worry about.
  
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  1. Meghan says:
    
    January 24, 2015 at 5:07 pm
    
    Hey Paul,
    I TOTALLY AGREE! I’m a 2:55 marathoner, 1:20ish half and I train clients for 4 hour marathons or to break 2:30 in the half and I can’t IMAGINE being out there that long for that distance….. the first 50K I did I was done in around 4 hours and people were out there for 8!!! I know they are pushing just as HARD as me! It just looked sort of funny on the video….
    
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