Ultramarathon Daily News | Thurs, Aug 27

Jake Jackson struggles honestly with Imposter Syndrome. Good read. Might be an interesting guest, huh?

A friend of Rivs hikes his keyboard up a mountain in the San Juans and taps out a beautiful rendition of Clare de Lune to honor his buddy. Beautiful.

DC RainMaker: Are you injured but your Garmin keeps beeping at you to get your workout in? Now there’s a solution…Pause Training Status.

In case ya missed it, Northern California is battling some of the worse fires in our history. Those on the front line are dealing with long hours and awful conditions and need our help. Skip Brand (Healdsburg Running Co and Lake Sonoma RD) has been using his RDing skillz and setting up aid station. (food, drinks, insoles, poison oak wipes, etc) for those protecting us. Here’s a way to help. Thanks everyone!

Which sports fanbase has the coziest relationship with cannabis? (FWIW, it appears they didn’t poll trail runners.)

How fast could you run up one of Boulder’s infamous Flatirons? It’s a quarter mile with 1k’ of vert.

Self-isolation, Montana style: Attempt 50 peaks in the Beartooths in 30 days. That’s 100k-150k’ of vert, almost all of it above 10k feet. Dang!

There are various products on the market that claim to be more hydrating than water alone. You can buy artichoke water, coconut water, watermelon water, and many others. If you become dehydrated, what you need is water, not fancy products with other things added. As Consumer Reports says, “There’s not much truth to the hydration claims.”

Are you getting tough water and staying hydrated? (I learned my lesson after my kidney stone a few years ago!)

More on Emily Halnon, the runner who recently set the FKT for the Oregon portion of the PCT.

Anton runs and rides for just under six hours to cover a grueling 92 miles. Good read.

Treeline Journal: In less than a month, Camille Herron will attempt to set a new WR for 6 days. Can she break 600 miles? Note: Yiannis Kouros has the record with 639 miles…that’s a record that won’t be touched. Joe Fejes ran 606 at EMU a few years ago and Camille could get close.

Dunkin Donut jelly donut IPA? COME. ON. Reminds me of my kids ordering shave ice. Sunny’s favorite is sour apple and cotton candy. Ugh.

RD in Malta spray paints course marking arrows on rocks in a protected area, then attempt to remove the arrows by chipping away at the stone. Nope. Environmental folks in Malta are taking him to court. (Link fixed.)

I interviewed Francesca Muccini yesterday and plan to release the episode this afternoon. Francesca obliterated the women’s record (and ran the 3rd fastest overall time) at Vol State 500k this year and has some incredible stories to share. Stay tuned.

11 Responses to "Ultramarathon Daily News | Thurs, Aug 27"

Jon says:

August 27, 2020 at 7:08 am

With regards to the doughnut beer: I was talking with a local brewer a couple of months ago about this particular trend in beer where everybody is infusing two-five different flavors into one or more of their brews and why it was happening more often.

His explanation was that people are more intrigued by the product description because once you’ve had *insert any brewery’s name here*’s IPA or Stout, it feels like you’ve had them all. Despite that though, he said that a lot of brewer’s can get away with making cheaper, sub par base-beer because all the infusions added in can hide the actual flavor of the original beverage. The underlying quality and cost goes down as each additional element is added.

Since that conversation I’ve found myself very much appreciating just a regular old Stout or a session IPA simply because it’s an exposed flavor and does have superior taste and quality; nothing to hide.

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Paul says:

August 27, 2020 at 7:44 am

I have mixed feelings about the flatiron article. On one hand it’s an interesting story. On the other hand, it’s dangerous enough and accessible enough, that people who aren’t qualified may try it after seeing the article. People have died on the flatirons.

Malta link points to DC Rainmaker article.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  August 27, 2020 at 8:12 am
  
  Run at your own risk. Not sure how to say that in Latin, but I’d love to know.
  Link fixed.
  Thanks.
  
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  1. eric schranz says:
    
    August 27, 2020 at 8:38 am
    
    Apparently “run at your own risk” is: Tuorum periculo currerem.
    
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SteelTownRunner says:

August 27, 2020 at 7:56 am

Kouros’ 6 day record is his softest and I’d expect it to be broken at some point should serious talented runners chase it. He ran 65X in a non-certified race, estimated he was capable of 1200 km, and his best efforts over ~1000 km he saved for the famed Sydney to Melbourne race. The race route varied on the years. The year he abandoned the race to run it solo, he broke 5 days.

On paper, Camille should be capable of over 600 and the American Record. She has superior leg speed to Fejes, and she is running it at an age far younger than Fejes did (around age 50).

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Will M. says:

August 27, 2020 at 9:47 am

Listened to a Francesca Muccini on the Adventure Jogger podcast recently. She seems like a total Bad A.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  August 27, 2020 at 10:37 am
  
  I missed that one. Only listened to Jason Friedman’s Pain Cave. She’s an incredible woman with a great story.
  
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Bob Hearn says:

August 27, 2020 at 10:16 am

Agreed. On paper she should be capable of over 600, but in these kinds of races paper doesn’t mean very much. It will be very interesting to see what happens.

Note that Kouros’s official IAU 6-day record is 644 miles, not 639, or the 659 the article claims. No doubt it is Kouros’s mark she is actually shooting for… but, I wonder which of these numbers she has in mind as the actual record?

Yes it is his softest record, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been broken.

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1. eric schranz says:
  
  August 27, 2020 at 10:37 am
  
  Yeah, I’m not sure. I think she’s capable of 600+, but getting anywhere near YK’s records—any of those stated–would take a truly incredible performance I’m not sure she’s set up for.
  
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Bob Hearn says:

August 27, 2020 at 11:05 am

I’m inclined to think she could be capable of 644… eventually. A lot will depend on how she handles sleep deprivation, so far untested. Her pattern so far at every new distance has been to DNF twice and then crush the WR on the third try. I think 644 this time out is unlikely. But I have learned that it is never safe to predict anything about Camille.

If we take Kouros at his word and the male record “should” be ~1,200 km, then the female record “should” be ~1,080 km, or 671 miles (modulo what one believes about women gaining relative advantage the longer the distance, so far unsupported by any actual records).

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Yitka says:

August 27, 2020 at 1:15 pm

Ha! My latest column for TR (in print, just got my issue in the mail this week; not online just yet) involves this very topic–griping about my watch’s constant tsk tsking about my declining fitness over the course of my pregnancy. 😛

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