Ultramarathon Daily News | Monday, Feb 18

Most people in the US have today off for President’s Day. Happy Monday! Turns out to be a pretty slow news day in the land of MUT running too.

What’s the state of the OCR industry, and what are the trends for the road racing scene? I’d love to see an updated and comprehensive study done based on ultrasignup data.

As a life long fan of XC, I found this article about the roots of the sport interesting. Also, it turns out, Barkley is really just one big XC race.

Justin/IRF Week in Review. All the results from this weekends ultramarathon and trail races. A few that stood out to me:

Matt Daniels was a surprise for me, but the rest of the Golden Ticket winners at Black Canyon made sense. Glad to see Kaci’s in!
Curious about Jared’s and Max’s drops. Hope they’re OK and it was just a tough day.
FOURmidable must’ve been a muddy mess. So much rain last week and it snowed in Auburn! But whoa, ski season is doing Tim Tollefson well. Can’t wait to see how his summer turns out.
Dani Moreno is someone I’ve been watching since her impressive win at Broken Arrow a few years ago. I like what she’s doing…sticking to the distance and terrain that suits her best.
Mark Hammond’s 13:05 100 miler at Jackpot is impressive. Mark flies under the radar then just kills it.
Transgrancanaria next weekend looks like a good race–especially on the ladies side–with Chaverot, Miao Yao, and returning champ Magdalena Łaczak all lining up.
And wow, check it out! My buddy Sean tied with Dave Johnston at Susitna! I’ll give him sh*t when he gets back.

Jill writes about a race/course most of us in Northern California have run and reflects on what it was like to be a beginner in this silly sport. I always love Jill’s posts and this one brought a special smile to my face.

Be sure to check out Jam Jam’s Mountain Outhouse for the week: Race results, Kara Goucher, and a two story outhouse?

14 Responses to "Ultramarathon Daily News | Monday, Feb 18"

Juan Escobar says:

February 18, 2019 at 7:42 am

Perhaps consider mentioning Coastal Challenge in Costa Rica in you news. Finished on Friday. Elite field from all over the world and others. I was there as well. http://thecoastalchallengecostarica.com/

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Will says:

February 18, 2019 at 7:53 am

Matt Daniels is crazy fast and has run a sub 4:00 mile. Anyone know if a sub 4 miler has toed the line at Western States before?

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1. Paul says:
  
  February 18, 2019 at 9:00 am
  
  I don’t think so. Pretty sure both Krar and Walmsley have run 4:0X. I think Daniels will be the first with a sub-4:00.
  
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2. eric schranz says:
  
  February 18, 2019 at 9:01 am
  
  Not sure. I can’t think of one. AJW would know.
  
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3. Jacques says:
  
  February 18, 2019 at 9:38 am
  
  I don’t think so either, though Krar’s 1500 PR of 3:44 is slightly faster than that of Matt Daniels PR at this distance. For anyone who’s been following Matt, it’s no surprise that he crushed Black Canyons this past weekend. He’s ran a few extremely fast 50Ks and would have punched his ticket at Bandera if not for a concussion. Surely he’ll have to figure out heat and nutrition, but I’m excited to see what he’ll do at WSER.
  
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scott says:

February 18, 2019 at 8:23 am

I think I’m most surprised that 650 ultras are on runsignup.
Is their structure just better in some regard for an RD or are these just RDs with road backgrounds and they’re just familiar with that host?

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  February 18, 2019 at 9:01 am
  
  Great question. I’ve only used that platform once and it drove me crazy.
  
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Rob Flowers says:

February 18, 2019 at 8:41 am

The article about Shrewsbury School cross country history is very cool – thanks for sharing.

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Alex Parker says:

February 18, 2019 at 3:09 pm

And there was this moderately-hyped trail race in Hong Kong yesterday. Jim won by, oh, about 40 minutes. Looks like it was a great workout for him. Sadly it seems like Rob had a bad cold and dropped mid-race.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  February 18, 2019 at 5:28 pm
  
  Yeah not sure what happened to Rob. I noticed that he raced the 50M and DNF’ed after about 80 minutes. Hope he’s doing well.
  
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Mike says:

February 18, 2019 at 3:38 pm

I want to give a shout out to the crazy people who finished the Susitna 100 on foot this weekend, as well as the Little Su 50K runners. The 100M race started at 9am on Saturday the 16th and the footrace (there are also bike and ski divisions) was won by Dave Johnston and Sean Ranney when they crossed the finish line at 5:46pm on the 17th, with a time of 32 hours and 46 minutes (compared to Dave’s time of just under 24 hours last year, in much better conditions). Another group of friends finished this morning (18th) at 3:42am, for a time of 42 hours and 42 minutes. The final finisher — only ten runners in all — finished at 8:52am this morning, 8 minutes shy of the 48-hour cutoff. Amazing! Only 19 people finished the 50K footrace, with times ranging from 5:22:27 to 10:46:09. CRAZY weather this year, warm and VERY snowy. Kudos to those who stuck it out (rather than dropping at mile 22, the first checkpoint and the only drop location on the road until mile 63, like I did!). No results (other than DNSes and DNFs) on ultrasignup yet, but they’re on the live standings page, accessible from susitna100.com.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  February 18, 2019 at 5:28 pm
  
  Very well deserved. Can’t wait to hear the story. I’m hoping to have Sean on to share his tale.
  
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Steph says:

February 19, 2019 at 11:01 am

I’m excited to see YiOu back at Western States. I’m hoping she has a breakout year.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  February 19, 2019 at 12:18 pm
  
  Me too. She’s in my top three.
  
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