Daily News, Thurs, March 6

Preparing and training for your first ultra. Part one.

The guy who just won the fatbike portion of the 1,000 mile Iditarod Trail did it in spectacular fashion.

Speaking of Iditarod, this interview with Dave Johnston is pretty awesome. I love this guy.

By the way, what gear do you need to race the Iditarod?

And geez, speaking of gear, what the heck happened at Transgrancanaria? Were Sandes and DBo DQed for not carrying gear? Early reports, rumors, and language barriers has me pretty confused.

Before Scotty left, he wrote a review on a cookbook by Racing Weight author (and past URP guest) Matt Fitzgerald. Check it out.

Speaking of diet…Fiber. Do you get enough of it? Come on, we talk about poop when we’re anyways, right?

Anyone have a year off and want a pretty sweet job? Drive around the southwest with a buddy, talk to outdoor folks, and sneak away on some killer runs.

The pre-injury scale for athletes. Funny and helpful.

I like the sound of this: Recovery Ale…brewed to assist in recovering from a hard workout.

Howabout an indoor marathon? OK, howabout an indoor marathon every day for six days? h/t to Melissa.

And a little more advice on getting ready for your first 50k.

Guy C. says:

March 6, 2014 at 8:55 am

I thought the Sandes thing was sorted out? Bowman is out as well? And this news is being reported now? Is there a link to a report on this?

TB says:

March 7, 2014 at 3:30 am

I believe the DQ with Ryan Sandes is resolved, he won. Bowman was DQ’d for not having his race number visible at the finish. Apparently it was torn off by a bush on the way in so he put it in his pocket. He showed it, along with all the mandatory gear, to the race official at the finish line and everything seemed to be ok then….

1. TB says:
  
  March 7, 2014 at 3:32 am
  
  Forgot to add that he is appealing the ruling. Link to his facebook post explaining the issue.
  
  https://www.facebook.com/federacion.canariademontanismo/posts/469666239801951?stream_ref=10

Chris says:

March 6, 2014 at 10:02 am

“And geez, speaking of gear, what the heck happened at Transgrancanaria? Were Sandes and DBo DQed for not carrying gear? Early reports, rumors, and language barriers has me pretty confused.”

Hard for people to take our sport seriously if RD’s don’t take their professional athletes competing in their events seriously. Unbelievable that professional athletes would even have these requirements. I don’t want to hear the “safety” argument either. These athletes train on a professional level and know what they are getting into. To put it in baseball terms what happened at Transgrancanaria is “Bush League”.

Eric says:

March 7, 2014 at 7:31 am

I ran the Maple Leaf 6-pack. 1224 total laps around that track. It was a well put on series. Can’t wait until next year.

eric schranz says:

March 7, 2014 at 9:28 am

Whew! That’s a lot of loops. How’d your pace change over the week?

1. Eric says:
  
  March 7, 2014 at 11:54 am
  
  Somehow I got faster. Did a conservative 4:51 for the first and a 4:04 for the sixth. There were more runners for the weekend marathons- so more carrots to chase.

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