Daily News, Wed, Dec 3

Andrew Skurka puts together an awesome analysis of elite Strava data from last year’s TNF. His findings: Most of the elites go out too fast (and Krar’s final ten miles was ridiculous.)

Here’s the latest podcast with Stephanie Howe, Megan Kimmel, and Sally McRae, as they prepare for this weekend’s race. I’m releasing one more today with three more fast chic as. Then I will breathe.

The most influential dates in ultrarunning. Did he miss anything?

NUC: No excuses. Go out and get it done.

Take a few minutes to read this piece about Horace Ashenfelter. He’s in his 90s and still runs a bit, but his running history is truly amazing. ex: He trained for one hour each day leaping over park benches en route to an Olympic gold medal in the steeplechase.

Beer Mile World Championships are today in Austin. Watch here at 4pm PST for live broadcast. NYT covers the event here. Current WR is a mind-blowing 4:57.

You’ve heard us talking about San Francisco Running Company and tight community it’s fostering. Here’s more.

Meet Atlanta MUT runner Molly Freeman.

Wanna get away? Check out this video of Stephanie Howe and Sage Canaday running an awesome trail in Hawaii.

Or check out this video by Feetures! socks with some rad trail footage. (and psssst, share this post and you might win a free pair of socks. I’ve got four pair.)

As of yesterday it’s official: Dylan Bowman is on TheNorthFace team. Hal, Krar, Timothy, Foote, and Wolfe. Pretty solid five there.

Hoka is new sponsor for USATF middle distance classic.

Science I like: Run to stay young.

Turkey Trot 5k? Nope, these folks run from Milwaukee to Chicago and seemingly stop at every restaurant along the way. Awesome!

Beautiful: Runners finish National Anthem when power craps out.

If EVER there were a Kickstarter project to support, this is it. Wow!

Will you be at the Trail Running Film Festival tonight in Sacramento? See you there.

Tha Messenjah says:

December 3, 2014 at 6:28 am

Is it just me or is it weird that the website with the influential dates has Kilian mentioned in 4 of the 10 dates…one of which is the day of his birth? Yes, I think Kilian is one of the most amazing athletes out there, but what about the date Badwater was founded (first completed in 1977). The day that Max broke the 100k American record (A couple of weeks ago). What about the day 12 hours was broken for the first time in a 100 trail event? What about when Zach broke the world record for the 12 hour track event with 163 miles (December 2013)? Also, the forming of the Nike team? Really? I think that might be a little bit of a stretch. I don’t know. Some of these are solid, but other dates are probably more influential.

eric schranz says:

December 3, 2014 at 6:44 am

I agree. The Kilian fascination is a bit over the top, but this is a UK based blog and he’s bigger over there.

1. Tha Messenjah says:
  
  December 3, 2014 at 6:47 am
  
  AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH……..That explains it. I mean. If he wanted to take me out on a run I wouldn’t turn him down 🙂
  
2. Francois says:
  
  December 3, 2014 at 8:59 am
  
  that also explains why they are not mentioning the nike trail elite team: they are (as of now) essentially made of marathon cross-over runners who have their focus on “shorter” distances (besides Sally McRae and Varner at states this year). By “shorter” distances I mean that in Europe, a 50mi trail race is not really an ultra but rather a “long trail” (vs short trail, vs mountain race, vs ultra…) whereas in the US we tend to call anything beyond 26.2mi an ultra. Similarly I doubt the 100k record from Max got the same, if any visibility at all, in the UK (although Ellie Greenwood’s performance would have been noticed for sure).
  As for Kilian, well… he doesn’t race much here in the US but apart from 2010, everytime he does he shows how it’s done 🙂 Anywhere really.
  
  Would be really exciting to have him face Krar on “both” turfs, i.e. a “flat/fast” course like western states and a “mountainous” course like UTMB, Hardrock or Reunion… I’d buy my ticket for that. On that same note, did I see D’Haene’s name (better known for very vertical courses) in the western states entrants for next year?
  
  1. eric schranz says:
    
    December 3, 2014 at 9:04 am
    
    Yep, I saw Francois’ name on the list. It’d be nice if Kilian would adjust his schedule again to run WS against our best.

Francois says:

December 3, 2014 at 8:23 am

I’m glad the race director liked the crowd version of the anthem better. It’s always (much) better this way (any anthem really). I guess I can’t stand the wanna-be-american-idol vibratos anymore… 🙂
SFRC rock!

Robb says:

December 3, 2014 at 12:52 pm

You will enjoy the Trail Running Film Festival! I saw it last night in Los Angeles and it was really good and so inspiring.

Beer Mile World Championships are today in Austin. Watch here at 4pm PST for live broadcast. NYT covers the event here. Current WR is a mind-blowing 4:57.

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