Ultramarathon Daily News | Mon, Nov 13

Trail and Ultramarathon results from this past weekend, courtesy of Justin at iRunFar. Here’s what stood out for me:

Outstanding performance by Camille Herron. To break a record like that by such a margin is truly world class. Will this and her Comrades win help her nab the UROY?
Alicia Vargo’s new FKT of the single crossing Grand Canyon. Eleven minutes off Bethany Lewis’ old record….dang!

The Shalane Effect: How supporting and mentoring other women (often her competitors) helped catapult her to victory.

Are you a PR person looking for a new gig in the endurance space? Ironman FL is looking for you.

Dr Jay Friedman writes about coronary calcification the arteries and how it effects runners. A glance at the data would suggest runners are more susceptible to a heart attack, but the good doctor explains how and why that’s not necessarily true.

Did you catch the episode I released on Friday with Zach and Mae? If you’d ever wondered what it would be like to run a hundred miler with your spouse (and finish still married), listen up. They offer great advice on training, strategy, and what sacrifices are necessary to make it work.

Be sure to check out this link to the Transelkirks Run in Revelstoke, BC. Five days and 100 miles with roughly the same vert as Hardrock or UTMB, but participants get to break it up with nights in a resort hotel with spas and a swim up bar. Family friendly too!

Ten running destinations in cell reception dead zones.

Latest Mountain Outhouse with JamJam.

The mental game: Six steps to making your goals your reality.

Ultimately, whether I have any talent (I’ve accepted that I do, for what it’s worth) has become irrelevant, because I can’t fu*king run. And I’d still really, really like to.

–An update with a hefty dose of self awareness from Anton. Man, I’d love to see him run competitively in a hundred miler again.

Interesting: The state of athletics coaching in the UK. I’d love to see someone write about coaching in the trail/ultramarathon space in the US. How much credit or blame should a coach get or deserve when we’re talking about our wacky sport? And how does a coach’s official qualifications and credentials affect the intended goals of their athletes? Is there a correlation?

Chris Dailey seems to have hiked or run every trail in the White Mountains. So many routes!

This Marine lost both legs in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan. He just ran 31 marathons in 31 days. And am I the only person who paused at the first sentence in the 3rd graf?

Great story about a Massai runner who traveled to NYC for the marathon, started in the back, and finished 17th OA.

I love this take on the beer mile: How fast can you run without spilling the two beers in your hand? Anyone know what the record is for a mile?

Great report about gritting it out during the Rio Del Lago 100 Miler.

Ten uses for a condom in the back country.

11 Responses to "Ultramarathon Daily News | Mon, Nov 13"

Henry Bickerstaff says:

November 13, 2017 at 9:03 am

Great article on the Shalane effect. But why do journalist feel the need to add their personal political beliefs? It only distracts from a great article.

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1. Nick says:
  
  November 13, 2017 at 9:22 am
  
  Oh come on! the Ivanka quip? Running doesn’t occur and has never occurred in a vacuum. Do you disagree with the content of the claim? Do you think Shalane’s influence will in effect be restricted to sports? Don’t you agree Shalane and Ivanka are quite different role models for women?
  
  If this bothers you you’re the one injecting your political beliefs into the discussion (sadly, not for the first time here). If questioning Ivanka’s appalling branding of herself as genuine feminism counts as expressing political beliefs in a way that’s incompatible with talking sports, then talking sports is in bad shape.
  
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  1. Ryan Williams says:
    
    November 13, 2017 at 10:03 am
    
    100% agree. It’s really hard for me to consider Ivanka any sort of role model. Give me a break..preaching about anti-bullying when she’s married to the #1 bully, the GREATEST bully in fact. It’s frustrating when people turn the blinders on whenever something that can be construed as “political” is mentioned. As what Nick said, running isn’t in a vacuum, nothing is. Let’s keep our heads out of the sand. It’s one thing if people are belligerently throwing hate back and forth at each other. In this case it was nothing of the sort.
    
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  2. Henry Bickerstaff says:
    
    November 13, 2017 at 12:14 pm
    
    Nick, To answers your questions. I did not say I disagreed with the claim or the comparison. I did not say Shalane’s influence is restricted to sports nor did I comment on that. I did not know if you were referring to me when you said “Sadly, not for the first time here”. If so, you must have a heck of a memory. I have probably commented on six to eight articles over the last year and to the best of my memory none have been political.
    
    All I said is that to use a polarizing figure in her article distracts from it. The proof is in our posts here,
    
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2. Stephen says:
  
  November 13, 2017 at 2:38 pm
  
  I agree, Henry. There was absolutely no need to add in the reference to Ivanka. It was just another “journalist” picking the low hanging fruit. We get it. You don’t like Trump. Move on and focus on the subject of the article.
  
  As for Shalane, she is an incredible woman and role model. She carries herself with such grace, and I couldn’t have been happier when she won New York a few weeks ago. In a sport where burnout is so common, and where the temptation to succeed at all costs has derailed many promising careers, it has been really enjoyable to be able to follow her career for so many years.
  
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  1. eric says:
    
    November 13, 2017 at 3:37 pm
    
    The premise was that Shalane Flanagan has had tangible positive effects on women, running, and women’s running by continuously uplifting those around her in a mutually beneficial relationship. Ivanka Trump has not. It makes for a clear and concise illustration of how unique Shalane’s impact has been for our running community. I don’t quite grasp how political affiliation transmogrifies Ivanka Trump’s actions into good/bad. Just that her actions have not had positive effects on women, if you think otherwise, go on ahead and keep doing so.
    
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Fran McCormick says:

November 13, 2017 at 10:58 am

I dunno about everyone else, but often just about *everywhere* I go for a run is in a cell dead zone

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cb says:

November 13, 2017 at 11:10 am

I don’t see how one couldn’t give Camille Heron the North American UROY award unless there is a bias against road ultras. To win Comrades and then set the 100 mile record by that large a margin is beyond impressive. It’s on a whole different level. Redefining what is possible for women in the sport.

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Ben Zuehlsdorf says:

November 13, 2017 at 11:30 am

UROY will be very interesting on the women’s side this year. Camille probably deserves it since I don’t believe we saw another women ‘dominate’ this year across at least a few races and Camille’s big wins were such outliers. It will be interesting to see how the voting takes in to account Camille’s high profile DNFs though too.

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1. Rick says:
  
  November 13, 2017 at 12:20 pm
  
  Good point – I also wonder how the DNFs will be weighed with the outstanding performances. Might Courtney Dauwalter’s performances give Camille a run for her UROY money?
  
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Arvid says:

November 13, 2017 at 8:30 pm

UROY stands for ‘ultrarunner’, so looks like Camille is a heavy favorite. ‘Trail runner’- not so much.

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