Ultramarathon Daily News, Mon, May 11

Scott Jaime travels to South Africa’s Black Mountains for some serious discovery. Great film!

Understatement of the week: Woman who describes herself as “not very good at orienteering” gets lost during 12.5km trail race in New Zealand and drinks her own breast milk to “survive” a night in the cold. She was found 2.5km from the race start. Thinking maybe a different sport would suit her better.

A HS senior from Oregon became only the sixth prep runner to break 4 minutes in the mile.

Luke takes us on an awesome adventure through the Cascades. Looks like the snow is melting nice and the trails are lush.

Do you get blisters and funky rubbing from your shoes? Use the lacelock method.

A few results: At Quicksilver 100k near San Francisco, Chikara Omine took it for the fellas, while the amazing Meghan Arbogast bested all females–at age 54. Full results here.

Ice Age 50 was won (predictably) by Zach Bitter (6:17) with Joanna Masloski (7:50) taking it for the ladies in her debut ultramarathon. Full results here.

Luis Alberto Hernando and Emelie Forsberg won Transvulcania. IRF has a breakdown here. The real standout performances for me were Luis Alberto beating Kilian’s CR, Blake Hose in a breakout-race-that-every-Aussie-knew-was-going-to-happen, Zach Miller for his grit in coming back, and Alicia Shay for making a serious statement in her first international ultra. Nice work, all.

Bob Shebest won Cinderella Trails 50k in Oakland. Bob is having a heck of a year, with four more hundreds to go!

At Smith Rock Ascent 50, world famous alpinist Ueli Steck finished his first ultramarathon in 4:28:55. Pretty damn good.

Pro advice from Sage: Want to get good at hills? Run 5 miles up hill at tempo pace. In the pouring rain.

I know a lot of people are into wearables and tracking every bit of data about themselves and their fitness, but I’m not one of those people.

Here’s the live feed from the EMUSPORT 6 day in Hungary. They’ve got less than 24 hours left and Joe Fejes has a chance at cracking 1000km. Do the math, and Joe will be running for damn near a hundred miles (or more) for six days straight. Wow.

How quickly can you recover from overtraining?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. — I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.

Mini-contest: I’ll be pulling a random name out of an e-hat for those who’ve purchased koozies in the past week. Can’t legally say what the prize will be, but it might be one of those beverages that I’ve got two of. Contest ends tonight at midnight.

11 Responses to "Ultramarathon Daily News, Mon, May 11"

Tha Messenjah says:

May 11, 2015 at 6:27 am

DAMMIT!!!!!!!! I BOUGHT MY STICKERS TOO EARLY!!!!!!! 🙂

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  May 11, 2015 at 6:58 am
  
  This contest only applies to koozies. Gotta have something to put in them, right?
  
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Andy says:

May 11, 2015 at 7:07 am

Umm, just wowReference

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Paul says:

May 11, 2015 at 7:20 am

Watching Joe’s race unfold is a great “moment” of sports history in the making. Absolutely remarkable performance.

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Brendan says:

May 11, 2015 at 9:12 am

Solid Beer fridge lineup. Nice to see the Allagash in there hiding. Thanks for the news post!

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Geoff A says:

May 11, 2015 at 12:49 pm

I love the lace lock, except on shoes that have minimal/ short tongues (hello Hoka ATR and Rapa Nui) where you can get some serious anterior tibial tendon bruising.Reference

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Ted says:

May 11, 2015 at 8:05 pm

Was trying to post an image of “mine” but didn’t know how. so picture this, my Brand New URP “FIDDY – single track mind” koozie with a 24oz Revolution brewery Cross of Gold right next to my shinny new Ice Age Trail 50 buckle and IAT50 koozie

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Matt says:

May 11, 2015 at 9:08 pm

I just ordered my koozies! I’ll take anything except the thing that looks like a milk carton.

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Jonathan Pascual says:

May 12, 2015 at 7:01 am

The person who got lost during a trail run and drank her own breast milk may sound sensationalistic as described by the news media. You, Eric Schranz, filter these news to us and further degrade her situation by calling her “some woman/drama queen” and perhaps “should go into a different sport”. Tourists, hikers, and runners who are experienced or not do get into trouble regardless of orienteering skills. This story tells me that race organizers and the people who were involved in this rescue situation were prepared to mobilize their resources right away and thus have a good outcome. It also tells me that perhaps the legions of people who join ultra running should learn orienteering skills. People like you who use your podcast and daily news would be helpful to those who lack these skills. On another note, Ian Corless interviewed a woman, Michelle Yates, who trained through pregnancy and ran shortly after giving birth. She was portrayed as an example to a lot of women going through the peri-pregnancy period. That is an example of a man showing class as an interviewer touching on topics such as pregnancy and breastfeeding. Yes you didn’t interview this lost person. Fine. However, you calling this woman a drama queen who went through a bonafide ordeal was denigrating and shows your lack of class.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  May 12, 2015 at 9:33 am
  
  Hi Jonathan-
  
  I’m sorry you don’t share my sense of humor with many of these links, but I’m certainly not going to sanitize what I write because of that. Hear me out.
  
  That’s great you prefer other hosts’ style and humo(u)r. I’d recommend you spend your time listening to them. Ian has a great show with a solid group of guests.
  
  At URP, not only do I have a female co-host, but I’d venture to guess that I’ve interviewed and highlighted more women than any one out there. My guests and stories have included pregnant, postpartum, and just generally bad ass ladies. I will not apologize for my choice of guests and will continue to have a wide mix of voices on the show.
  
  And let’s look at few links just this week. I shared the story of the woefully ill-prepared kid (male) who took off on the PCT and made it all of 8 hours before having to be rescued (if I didn’t refer to him as an ill-prepared dumbass I should have), and this morning I linked to the post about the moms who are killing it at ultras while breastfeeding.
  
  And finally, yesterdays’s meta-title ended with “all wrapped up in one snarky little package.” And that’s exactly what it is. News, stories, humor, snark, and beer. It’s a fun crowd and a fun place that you don’t have to take so seriously. Come, join us!
  
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Hangdog says:

May 13, 2015 at 3:04 pm

Way to go Bob! One thing about Bob:
Shebest always does his HeBest..:)Reference

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