Daily News, Tues, Apr 30

Check out our new podcast with Maggie Akyüz, a NY native who just ran her first hundo. She just started running two years ago and is attacking her bucket list in a very unconventional way.

Read this: A market-based solution to drugs in sport. What if company X started publicly testing its athletes? Company B would likely follow…Thoughts?

Gary Gellin’s Lake Sonoma race report, with additional comments regarding racing potential and what we’ll likely see in the future.

Is your injury caused by pace or distance?

NUC: One in six cyclists are invisible to drivers (especially 20-29 yo women!)

Good race report from the Traprock 50k in Connecticut where the course is technical and the urine is bloody. I’ve peed dark brown before, but have managed to avoid the blood. Anyone done any damage?

Can African cyclists follow in the footsteps of the continent’s runners?

Don’t blame your body if you tire out.

Wow, awesome 8 min video on fell running.

How does stress affect your running? Good post here by Stephanie Howe.

How to tell the difference between uncomfortable and injured. Ahh, the big question…

The art of peaking for a race.

Lizzy Hawker is starting another 227k race today in Nepal. Beast!

George Zack says:

April 30, 2013 at 6:04 am

Yeah, I have peed blood before. Usually represents some sort of kidney bruising. Definitely dangerous territory. Glad it only happened once.

Jason Halladay says:

April 30, 2013 at 11:16 am

Weird that report doesn’t go further to explain why he was urinating blood. My money is on way too much NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc) I as see and hear way too much about ultrarunners eating ibuprofen like candy, unfortunately. Or perhaps the runner took a hard digger somewhere on the course and bruised his kidney. Either way, I hope he’s OK now.

The one time I urinated straight-up blood was after an extremely hard crash while snowboarding. The other time I urinated some blood was when I first got into ultra distances and fell for the over-hyping of NSAIDs and took way too much in too short of a time span without drinking enough water. After that incident I have not taken a single NSAID since and don’t feel the need at all.

Andy Bruch says:

April 30, 2013 at 1:51 pm

Interesting article by the Danish folk on potential causes of injury. I found the conclusion by the RW author to be a pretty enlightened one (read the article, no spoilers here). After reading it, I still have to wonder whether and how much injury is induced by excessive intensity or distance combined with plain old poor form/ill-fitting footwear, with the latter being the primary agent for injury and the former(s) being related but not causal. Probably a bit of a “Captain Obvious” statement, but there’s a big part of the science and research world that continues to look for bigger answers in smaller places.

Pee says:

April 30, 2013 at 8:04 pm

I’ve peed blood! The bloody pee needs to be checked out by a doctor.

Bloody pee is the only warning sign for bladder cancer – and bladder cancer is the ultimate diagnosis for HALF of people who pee blood! While it’s attractive to attribute it to running, don’t we run pretty much every day? So if we WERE going to pee blood from cancer, it would probably be on a running day. Also, it can be a symptom of a potentially very serious kidney condition (which my doctors are now monitoring me for).

Okay, but guys? If you won’t attach my name to it, I’m willing to submit a photo of a specimen cup for your Hall Of Fame. It ain’t a toenail, but it’s black! And it’s damn gross.

DJ says:

May 1, 2013 at 7:14 am

Great links today!

Mike D says:

May 1, 2013 at 4:20 pm

I too was at Traprock and can say that course beat a lot of people up. One guy looked like got mauled by a bear his white shirt was so bloody. Being a nutty ultrarunner like we all are, I will say he didn’t stop!

But to the comment of peeing blood. Wow…pure blood! Yikes.

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