Daily News, Tue, Dec 30

What are your 2015 trail running resolutions?

Speaking of resolutions, The Angry Jogger has had a rough few weeks but is swearing (literally and figuratively, of course) to improve in the next year.

Running the Vertical K in the Swiss Alps, times two…at age eighty.

Kawauchi (easily one of the most exciting marathoners to watch this year) has big plans for 2015. Please oh please let that include a fast road ultra.

Runners World has some exciting new news about our sport.

The Science of Sport guys wrap up the year. Great stuff.

Oiselle supports emerging athletes like no other brand start up I know of. Which MUT-related companies could and should use their model?

I assume it’s just a matter of time before something like this happens in our sport. Ugh.

…it seems a lot of bad attitudes are already out there.

Short news day. Off to the Sierras for some snowshoeing.

9 Responses to "Daily News, Tue, Dec 30"

Emir says:

December 30, 2014 at 6:03 am

Nike is kind of using the same model as Oiselle. I would love to see Altra pick up some of these young fast people.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  December 30, 2014 at 6:37 am
  
  Oh, they are. New teams will be announced soon.
  
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Mic Med says:

December 30, 2014 at 6:10 am

I don’t really like Oiselle, maybe because I’m a dude and don’t understand why I can’t be on their team, but I really dig the idea of the “Flock.” I’ve referenced Pearl Izumi multiple times and how disappointed I am in them not continuing their Elite Ultra Team, but man, if you told me I could pay Pearl $100, and I’d get a singlet and/or bag/hat/other item and then the remaining money (let’s say $50) went to fund an elite athlete through the year, I’d be all for it. It’s a great idea, so long as memebers of the “Flock” don’t write blog posts on how THEY are the sponsored athlete. It’s crowdsourcing an elite athlete. It’s really clever.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  December 30, 2014 at 6:38 am
  
  Exactly. It’s a great idea–and it seems to be working! Anxious to see if the flock model can spread its wings. (Yeah, I had to. Couldn’t resist.)
  
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Patrick Krott says:

December 30, 2014 at 7:05 am

The article about the d-bag entitled runners really irritates me. Oh, you didn’t get a shirt. I’ve got boxes full of them, come over and help yourself.

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Nate Dunn says:

December 30, 2014 at 7:23 am

Regarding the mountain bikers who sued race organizers and whether the same thing could happen in ultrarunning, the releases that we sign (or click through if we sign up through Ultrasignup) are usually good enough to have a case or that nature dismissed. I’ve defended those types of cases in the health club setting and won. If there is no release of liability, I could potentially see liability in a number of ways, perhaps not enough to win at trial, but enough to have a race director get sued and then have their insurance company write a check to the plaintiff due to the cost of defending the case. The takeaway is that all race directors should always require participants to sign releases of liability, and to the same extent, runners should be aware of trail conditions and not charge down technical downhills (or other scenarios which require tricky footwork) as if they were indestructible.

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Travis says:

December 30, 2014 at 7:54 am

3 things.

I vote we have a like our thumbs up button on our posts.

I REALLY like Mic Meds idea of crowdsourcing an elite athlete!

I also fully support Patricks position. Come on over; I have plenty of race tshirts in various colors and styles.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  December 30, 2014 at 10:06 am
  
  I’d love to have separate comments for each link, but have no idea how to do that.
  Anyone got WP skillz?
  
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Michael A. Jimenez says:

December 31, 2014 at 1:08 pm

Science of Sports Guy article was a good summary of a few different topics, nice inclusion Eric!

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