Daily News, Thur, May 8

Cool article about Nike Trail Elite’s Alicia Shay and her “Shay Hostel” in Flagstaff.

Interview with the sub-5 beer mile guy with some seriously great advice.

A quiz on trail running quirks.

Is Skechers the new Nike…or just a repeat of LA Gear?

Gluten free people actually have no idea what gluten is.

Throwback Thursday: Barefoot Ted interview from a few years ago.

Chris McDougall: I never meant to start a barefoot running revolution.

Elevation chart temporary tattoos. Neat idea.

Meet Libby James, one of the most accomplished distance runners in the world.

Cool: Your Strava routes as art. h/t to Stu.

Jurek: The science of sweating.

No Ultra Content and very little artistic value, but pretty funny nonetheless: Two guys passing beers to each other in creative and sometime dangerous ways. h/t Michael.

Site update: Crazy busy with gigantic yard project (that I’m subsequently writing about), product reviews (new Adidas, new fastpack pack from UD, sunscreen–which is coming in handy, etc), and koozie/sticker promo, and I’ll be recording at least one interview tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

16 Responses to "Daily News, Thur, May 8"

Brett says:

May 8, 2014 at 5:39 am

Love the gluten video. Confirms everything I’ve always thought about the gluten people. Specifically since science says there’s no such thing as a “gluten allergy” there is however a wheat allergy.

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Mic Med says:

May 8, 2014 at 6:20 am

Strava as art? Posters of your routes??? My best friend’s name is Roy. Roy and I have been friends for 15 years, done countless adventures together, race together, suffer together, and swim naked together. Let’s imagine we just did a long, hard, grueling race together. We head down to the river to swim naked as men do. We’re giggling, laughing, talking about the best parts of the race. He gets out first, as usual, to go get the towels that I accidentally left about 20 meters off the shore and as I’m watching him get our towels he says, hey, “come back to my place and we can have some white wine spritzers.” Of course I’m going: ultimate recovery drink, right boys? Anyways, if when we got back to his place, he invited me down into the basement for a good ol’ fashion wrestling/grappling session that we sometimes do, and I looked up while getting pinned, AGAIN, and saw a poster of his Strava routes on the wall… I’d immediately leave and never be friends with him again.

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1. Pete says:
  
  May 8, 2014 at 7:27 am
  
  Wow….just….wow.
  
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2. Josh L says:
  
  May 8, 2014 at 8:38 am
  
  This is usually where I draw the line as well.
  
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3. Jeremy says:
  
  May 8, 2014 at 10:45 am
  
  Mic Med, you MUST be an ultra-runner. Well done.
  
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brian says:

May 8, 2014 at 7:11 am

You should list those stupid anti-gluten free articles as none ultra content. I agree most people don’t understand celiac disease or the need to be gluten free but for people who actually have celiac, those articles are really ignorant.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  May 8, 2014 at 7:27 am
  
  I’m hardly consistent with the NUC tag and should probably get better, but I saw the Jimmy Kimmel piece as more of a slap at people from LA than anything. And sure, there are plenty of people with true Celiac disease who don’t understand it (just as there are cancer patients who don’t understand the biology of what’s happening), but it also seems there’s an abnormally large contingent of people who’ve jumped on the gluten free bandwagon and use it as a fad diet.
  
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Jason Green says:

May 8, 2014 at 7:23 am

^^^^^Mic Med just left the most amazing comment – Thank You

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1. Mic Med says:
  
  May 8, 2014 at 8:44 am
  
  ::tip my fedora:: Welcome, sir.
  
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Brian says:

May 8, 2014 at 7:28 am

P.S. Wheat allergy and celiac disease (intolerance to gluten) are not the same thing. Gluten is in other products besides wheat, namely barley and rye.

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/

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Stu says:

May 8, 2014 at 7:56 am

In other Strava news:

Is our data their currency?
Strava Wants to Sell Its Data to Urban Planners http://t.co/tqDZEdKPUP

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Michael Jimenez says:

May 8, 2014 at 9:22 am

Related to Shay Hostel is this story from this weekend’s OC Marathon. http://www.runnersworld.com/races/a-dq-makes-stephan-shay-ryans-brother-a-marathon-champ

A friend of mine that crewed for our Badwater: Salton Sea team had just run it so this caught my attention.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  May 8, 2014 at 9:34 am
  
  Yeah, very true. I saw on the news this morning a video of the cyclist confronting Shay’s brother (in a very, very douchey way), but can’t find the video online. Anyone?
  The “getting lost” argument may be slightly acceptable (since the lead cyclist blew a flat), but getting water from the cyclist is an absolute no-no that everyone knows.
  Any help?
  
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  1. eric schranz says:
    
    May 9, 2014 at 11:04 am
    
    Ah, found the video. What a total wanker.
    
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Javier R says:

May 8, 2014 at 9:07 pm

some mtn biking NUC content — http://www.pinkbike.com/news/objetivo-acatenango-3976m-fabien-barel-video-2014.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fb-like

showcases Acatenango volcano pretty well, which is also stage for a race to the peak and down every summer !

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Jordan says:

May 9, 2014 at 6:45 am

As someone who is unable to digest wheat & dairy (and an unfortunately long list of other things) I find the gluten-free video absolutely hilarious. I think that those claiming it is ignorant need to quit being so sensitive. As long as fad-diets exist people will hop on the band-wagon; it is human nature. And if they think that going gluten-free makes them feel better or healthier, then I say go for it! (But we are still allowed to have a good laugh.)

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