Daily News, Thurs, Nov 7

Here’s a great piece about a trail mama dealing with asthma. Respect.

Cyclocross: Trailrunning’s wacky cousin. Anyone else ride CX?

He jinxed himself by wearing the “Death Before DNF” calf guards.

How does a 100k trail run through Transylvania sound?

Funny but sad: Inspirational fitness quotes over pictures of drunks.

Keep up the mantra: This workout feels good.

Ridin’ the sweep bus at the NYC Marathon. Same attitude of the volunteers as we’ve got, but the execution is different.

Is Virginia Tech the only school with a Trail and Ultra team?

We’ve got metric stickers again! Visit the Donation Aid Station if you’re interested, and as always, THANK YOU to those who’ve helped us out!

Cool film about Dom Grossman’s Angeles Crest 100 run.

If you know of an interesting event coming up this weekend that I can include in the calendar, shoot me a msg at [email protected]

14 Responses to "Daily News, Thurs, Nov 7"

Tyler says:

November 7, 2013 at 6:57 am

I wouldn’t be surprised if Liberty University in Lynchburg has a team of some sort. David Horton and Clark Zealand teach there and they seem to get a lot of students out to their races in the Beast Series and Lynchburg Ultra Series. http://www.eco-xsports.com/events/beast-series/

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1. Ryan says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 9:42 am
  
  Horton actually teaches an “Advanced Running” course, and the final in the class is running an ultra.
  
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Jeff says:

November 7, 2013 at 7:12 am

Whenever I see 13.1 or 26.2 stickers on a car I roll my eyes, but I’ve got to respect the 2650 and 2175 stickers on saw on a car the other day. (For the Pacific Crest and Appalachian Trails.)

I think the “PCT 2000” vanity plate was a bit much, though.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 7:16 am
  
  I’ve got a 2:40 marathon friend with a 26.2 sticker. He’s showed me not to roll my eyes.
  
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  1. Hone says:
    
    November 7, 2013 at 8:44 am
    
    2:40 is about 37 minutes slower than the WR. That means the elites are 7 miles ahead of your friend when they finish. As soon as I see 2:04 guys rocking the stickers I will not roll my eyes. Ha
    
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2. Michael Jimenez says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 11:55 am
  
  What’s wrong with enjoying the sport so much that you throw a sticker on your car…Are runners the only group that form a firing squad in a circle?
  
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3. Bryan says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 7:21 pm
  
  Yeah, I’m that guy, I have a 19.7 ( local Idiot run) 26.2, a > 26.2, a 24 hour , a 100, and a Irunfar.com. Go ahead and roll the eyes. It’s my Ultra van and I earned them.
  
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Gary David says:

November 7, 2013 at 8:03 am

I’ve been racing CX for about 10 years now. Even put on a cyclocross race. If you want to have your heart come close to exploding, have fun on a bike, and meet great people, this is the event for you.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 8:09 am
  
  You left out the copious amount of beer I’ve seen flowing at the races.
  
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  1. Gary David says:
    
    November 7, 2013 at 8:40 am
    
    REALLY GOOD beer. The cx homeland is Belgium after all.
    
    Right now is CX season, so I’ve been racing CX as part of my marathon prep (ran on Sunday) and for a 40 miler in December. Great way to work anaerobic system with less impact, if you don’t count the impacts of crashing (which usually don’t hurt that much).
    
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Gary David says:

November 7, 2013 at 8:47 am

Should stress from the point from the video that you do not need to invest a lot of money into cx equipment. If you were going to get one kind of bike, I would get a cross bike because of the flexibility of riding it on the road and on trails. You don’t need tubulars, but could just use clinchers and then have different tires to swap on for different conditions. Really only need two types (dry and muddy). But you can get by with just one type of tread (like a Challenge Grifo).

Cheap races, nice people, family friendly venues, a lot of fun, low stress. No reason not to try doing cyclocross.

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Kevin says:

November 7, 2013 at 1:09 pm

You’re liket he Drudge Report of Ultrarunning. Keep up the great work!

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1. Nicole says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 2:52 pm
  
  +1.
  
  Cup of coffee, check news, check email, read URP daily…
  
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2. eric schranz says:
  
  November 7, 2013 at 3:00 pm
  
  Ha! Thanks, but we’ve got a little less controversy. No sirens, either, and our HTML has evolved since 1990. 🙂
  
  This started as a way to just collect stories I found interesting and it gave me a place to store them so I could read them later. It’s turned into this and I’m grateful and surprised each day at how many people tune in.
  Thanks!
  
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