Daily News, Tues, July 30

I’d heard about the Lakeland 50/100 in the English Countryside, but this report helps me understand why it’s such a popular event. Beautiful scenery, smoothies at aid stations, great volunteers, discos. Wait, what?

Jenny Capel set a new Tahoe Rim 165 FKT (women) with a 53:36 with some killer pacing from friends, including Victor Ballesteros. Listen to our podcast with Victor from his attempt last year.

Want watch Anton climb a mountain?

Not an ultra, but this marathon on Everest takes three weeks to get to. Hat tip to Cory P.

It’s tough to define “world’s fittest athlete” but I think Ashton Eaton would qualify. Here’s his advice for the rest of us.

Ultra legend Jim O’Brien fired from HS XC gig for some lame soundint reasons. I’m anxious to see how this all turns out.

Tropical Storm Flossie (sounds real tough, huh?) blasted us pretty good last night with a thunder and lightenintg storm unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Power was out for awhile, but candles and cocktails got us through the night. All is good and I’ll be heading out on a red dirt/mud run to the extreme west end of the island.

I’m generally immediately dismissive of lawsuits stemming from accidents at races, but this one sounds like it has at least a modicum of merit. The athletes are paying to have adequate medical staff and course marshalling present, right?

Derrick Spafford’s report from a 55k trail race with no trail crossings and no aid stations…once you start, it’s impossible to drop. Sounds awesome!

8 Responses to "Daily News, Tues, July 30"

Ryan says:

July 30, 2013 at 9:33 am

That video of Anton is pretty cool. I would probably fall and die.

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Gerell says:

July 30, 2013 at 10:15 am

Again a mention of victors trt attempt. How about you get tom flahaven on to ask him about his trt experience….btw he has the SECOND fastest time…seems like a no brainer for ULTRARUNNER podcast…. He was paced by some awesome people as well…

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  July 31, 2013 at 7:48 am
  
  It’s impossible to please everyone. I mentioned Victor because we interviewed him and there’s a tie in back to the site.
  I understand that you’d like me to mention every other FKT attempt–especially Tom’s–but Gary and Victor’s is the one I’m choosing to highlight. I was there and there’s a personal connection for me.
  
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  1. Gerell says:
    
    July 31, 2013 at 11:31 am
    
    We all get the personal connection, but again for you to pick and choose who you want to highlight seems a bit off with the whole website. On a run this morning with some fellow runners we all agreed that the website has that ” elite” tone to it and although not many people know who tom is, the point is not that they know who he is,but again spread the word of Ultrarunning feats. I also wrote to you and commented on how you failed to mention anything on the top local finisher at states this year. It is impossible to please everyone, so just know that people like myself will keep commenting when obvious omissions occur. It’ s not about promoting people it’s about reporting on people and sharing stories, regardless if you know them personally.
    
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    1. eric schranz says:
      
      July 31, 2013 at 12:12 pm
      
      Gerell,
      Sorry you feel that way. I pick and choose which pages to post to in a wholly unscientific way that has more to do with my immediate interests than with fairness. There should be no offense taken by anyone if I don’t recognize their accomplishments, but I link to what I know. Perhaps you’ve got a wider knowledge of MUT running than I do.
      
      In terms of being “elitist”, we’ve actually heard the opposite from most other listeners. They generally want us to focus more on elites, but I’ve got a place in my heart for lesser known runners with great stories. In the past ten podcasts, five have had “elite” guests.
      
      I also take a considerable amount of time every day to compile everything (I’m on a family vacation right now in Hawaii responding to you) and I do it for free. Again, I’m sorry if the links aren’t as thorough as they could be, but I do this for fun and provide it for free.
      
      Yours is the only complaint I have with the Daily News (other than my more-than-occasional typos…d’oh!), and not to be flippant, but I’m going to keep doing the Daily News as I always have.
      
      Thanks for listening and writing,
      
      Eric
      
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      1. Gerell says:
        
        July 31, 2013 at 4:05 pm
        
        Eric,
        
        I’m not complaining about your website,just confused to why certain obvious events are not part of the thought process. I’m sure you are not aware of everything that goes on,but for one I know you all were aware of Tom’s endevour because you were contacted and made aware of it. Even after this you all still did not want to include it. If say, Tim Olson did the TRT, and ended up with the second fastest time behind Killian, I’m sure there would be mention of it on your website. Why?Overall, your website is great and very imormative, but I’m again confused with your responses and why certain people are mentioned and others are not. The name of your website says it all as to what I’m referring to….
Brandon says:

July 31, 2013 at 7:31 am

That last story is pretty similar to the race I’m running next weekend. It will be my first 100 miler, with only 2 aid stations at miles 42 and 70. Other than that, you’re on remote wilderness trails (in Alaska!) with no support. The difficulty of dropping could turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  July 31, 2013 at 7:42 am
  
  Brandon-That sounds awesome! What race is it? Got a link?
  Thanks!
  
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