Ultramarathon and Trail Running Daily News | Mon, Dec 2

IRF/Mock: All the results from the trail and ultramarathon events held this past week. Hot takes:
-Cody takes down Francois at UTCT! Wow!
-Nice to see Seth Swanson still getting it done.
-Beth Pascall caps off her incredible year and wins Cape Town by over an hour!
-Chikara Omine runs 15:36 at 5k Turkey Trot. Chikara will run any distance and do well…he’s incredible well balanced and talented. Any other ultra folks do well at a Turkey Trot this year?
-CIM preview. Thanks for including that Justin! Ailsa MacDonald, Lindsay Tollefson, Max King, Patrick Smyth…more MUT folks hitting the pavement for 26.2. I’ll be (t)here watching and tweeting. Looking like the weather may break for Sunday.
–~~Looking for full results from Quad Dipsea. Anyone got a list?~~ Full results from Quad Dipsea. Thanks.

Avoid the FOMO and get your name in the hat for next year’s Lake Sonoma 50. Lottery opened up yesterday and you don’t want to miss out on the most competitive 50 miler in the country.

Group goes after “dirty blonde” ale as sexist and misogynistic. Glad to see the brewery won’t cowtow to this silly outrage.

What I learned from this: 1) Ultra hula-hooping is a thing. 2) Four days is a crazy long time. 3)You can’t drop the hoop or you’r DQed. Isn’t that like saying if you fall while running you’re a DNF?

Treeline Journal: Chase writes about cigarettes, addiction, and how it all led to MUT success.

Full results from the hyper competitive Fukuoka Marathon in Japan. Yuki runs a casual 2:12 for 12th place. Men’s race only, no female results.

Why breweries are making non-alcoholic craft beer.

On that, I made it through Thanksgiving with little problem. Took my NA beers to my parent’s house and felt right at place with no desire to drink alcohol. Then yesterday, I went to the movies with some friends (first time in a “real” movie theatre in years) to see Ford vs Ferrari and watching the characters drink whiskey made me really want to feel that burn and have a few fingers. I didn’t, but it’s weird what triggers that desire.

Canadian Running: Easy flowchart to determine whether you’ll get into Western States Endurance Run.

“I saw it online”…”I saw a study that said”…”I read from a PhD that…” Another example of why you should be skeptical of academic studies and people who think too much: Endurance running is a cult.

PEDs: I don’t have an answer or strong opinion about what should happen to minors when they test positive. Definitely go after the handlers, but what do you do with the athletes?

Cool race report from the top woman at Tunnel Hill 100 miler. Probably best that she didn’t know who Connie Gardner was. I’ve gotta believe it’s pretty intimidating to pass someone like that!

New episode dropping this morning. Stay tuned!

8 Responses to "Ultramarathon and Trail Running Daily News | Mon, Dec 2"

Malcolm says:

December 2, 2019 at 6:57 am

Big fan of the Brooklyn alcohol free lager. Been available in the UK for a while now.

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Sara Mahoney says:

December 2, 2019 at 7:50 am

Regarding the article about scientific research in running, I think this is one of the more difficult parts of being a scientist. We are good at talking to ourselves, and generally pretty poor at communicating our work more broadly. The article you linked is an article about an article about a research study, and just like a game of telephone, it’s hard not to lose the actual message of the science.
I don’t think that means that we throw out running research or ignore it altogether. Most of the training principles we have now that seem like common sense are actually born out of good quality research. What’s difficult is that a lot of research doesn’t have easy takeaways that we can apply to our training, but rather moves the science forward incrementally.
As a researcher, I try my best to promote interesting work and answer questions about it, but I am definitely open to suggestion about how we can communicate our research more effectively!

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  December 2, 2019 at 8:26 am
  
  All good and fair points and well taken.
  Must be frustrating to see good research reduced to tweets and bullet points.
  
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Pete says:

December 2, 2019 at 8:23 am

Yes- the article that Eric linked to is a (rather poor) article about the original article; the original column is actually pretty interesting: The study author writes for example, “.. running has become a way to gain social status by creating an image or personal brand” …. hmmm.

http://theconversation.com/running-not-so-much-a-liberating-hobby-as-a-cult-127765

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Will says:

December 2, 2019 at 8:32 am

I don’t think that any reasonable person can deny that the consumption of extreme experiences as a means to creating a personal brand is a phenomenon that exists in our culture. I don’t think that any reasonable person can deny that ironman, tough mudder, and ultrarunning all represent a subset of this phenomenon.

“Running: not so much a liberating hobby as a cult” is a catchy headline, and I’m sure the author is using it to generate clicks. However, if you actually click into the PhD thesis (or at least the abstract, who has time to read over 100 pages lol) her point seems more insightful and less controversial.

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Nicolas says:

December 2, 2019 at 10:12 am

The article on the thesis is garbage, regardless of what the thesis is worth. The author of the article is mean-spirited, probably hasn’t bothered to read the work, doesn’t to know much about academia. The problem to me is not people who think too much; it’s people like this dude who won’t bother to think before spewing ill-informed faux outrage.

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Nicolas says:

December 2, 2019 at 10:29 am

On the blonde ale, since the outrage was largely about the advertising campaign (although not exclusively), it’s worth noting this comment from O’Hearn:

‘We’re taking what people are saying and because we don’t want to insult anybody with any of our advertisements, we’re going to cease the advertising of our current marketing program.’

‘O’Hearn said along with halting all marketing associated with its blonde beers, the company is re-evaluating its marketing campaigns going forward.’

I say more political beer names, less stupid jokes 🙂

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scott says:

December 2, 2019 at 12:06 pm

Re: Loretta and Corinne.
I’ll never forget Zach at JFK passing Krar and asking him his name.

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