Ultramarathon Daily News | Thurs, Nov 19

Treeline Journal: Best practices for good recovery for ultramarathon runners. Sleep, diet, mental health and all those gizmos you buy at race expos.

SCMP: How to practice grit. Pretty good tips in there.

Caster Semenya continues to fight for trans/nonbinary athletes. I always prefer clarity over agreement, and when we lump in those with hyperandrogenism with transgender men and women, the discussion gets murky and we’re no longer discussing the same thing. All the best to Caster and her fight for equality.

–This was from our kids club run on Tuesday and I still can’t get the smile off my face. It was the first rainy mud run for many of them and to say that they loved every single minute of it would be an understatement. Kids who struggle to run ten laps on the track wanted more, more, more after we surpassed that distance on the trails and have apparently not stopped talking about.

Uh oh, I may have misgendered that squirrel, tree, or plant on the trail. Holy hell I’m confused about queer ecology. (I double checked all this and it’s not a parody site.)

MSN: Is Thanksgiving turkey healthy? Nutritionists weigh in.

JFK50 is (at least slated) to happen this weekend and the lineup is pretty awesome. Matt Daniels, Hayden Hawks, Geoffrey Burns, Tim Freriks, Stephen Kersh, Jared Hazen, and more. Don’t have a list for the ladies besides Camille Herron and Sarah Biehl (recent Oly qualifier from Ohio making her ultra debut.) Anyone? Naturally, some people on Twitter are mad that the race is taking place at all despite all the risk mitigation from race organizers and permitting agencies.

iRunFar/Malcolm: All about Raynaud’s Syndrome. My sister’s got it, my mom’s got it (both runners) and plenty of friends deal with it. Gloves in 70 degree weather? Yup.

Regardless of your political leanings, I hope we can agree that “Four Saisons Total Landscaping Sour Grapes” is a hilarious name for a beer.

Rich says:

November 19, 2020 at 6:49 am

Beautiful site! you are changing lives and future trajectories brother. Keep up the great work with these kids and yourself 🙂

John says:

November 19, 2020 at 7:53 am

I get that dropping academic concepts into mainstream discussion can sometimes be confusing, but there are some cool facts in that “queer ecology” article and I’m glad I read it, so thanks for sharing despite your snark. Sometimes when we get stuck seeing things in strict binaries (gender, politics, natural vs unnatural, whatever) it can be useful to consciously break that framework. Maybe a particular binary is useful in some contexts but not in others. Anyway I’m sure the article would be a yawn or an eye-roller for many of your readers, but I enjoyed it.

Trust me, no one’s mad that you think all squirrels are boys. 😉

eric schranz says:

November 19, 2020 at 8:29 am

You see it as helpful, I see it as woke gobbledygook. Differing opinions make the world interesting.

And I’ll give you that the a-hole squirrels are males, but who decides the gender of trails and hills? Could be a fun think project, right?

alonewolfrunning says:

November 19, 2020 at 11:44 am

JFK 50 – so excited! dudes lineup looks stacked – Hazen and Hawkes are gonna give it hell!
Would be cool to hear more of the female lineup but always excited to see Camille on the startline, and Sarah Biehl, don’t know her but you had me at Olympic qualifier Ultra debut! Zonks
Should be awesome!!

Adrian Spencer says:

November 19, 2020 at 3:44 pm

Here’s the thing about JFK: it’s not just about the race. It’s about the impact of 1,000+ people from all over the country (runners, crews, families) dropping into a hot spot and then returning home with whatever they’ve picked up. There’s no reason the organizers couldn’t have scaled it waaaaay down- they had months to pivot. I was told by a JFK staff member in August that because they’re grandfathered into their AT permit, they can’t cancel and continue holding the race. That was the same week they were telling runners that they could defer to future years in the event of a cancellation. They drop the testing requirement as an afterthought 72 hours out (nearly a week after the Governor announced new restrictions) and won’t allow out-of-staters to defer. They say they’ve designated profits for charity and can’t offer refunds or deferrals. Every big race has cancelled and had to make adjustments but not JFK. Again, they saw this coming months ago and their response was to keep selling entries and figure the health and safety of runners out later. I my point is clear by now but in case it isn’t: the outrage you’re seeing is not *just* about the safety of the event: it’s also about a long time pattern of greed on the part of the RD that has finally culminated in a monumental act of egregious irresponsibility that will make people sick. Let a 50 person field of elites run and give everybody else who wants it a deferral. If doing so collapses Spinnler’s financial house of cards then so be it. New management would be a welcome breath of fresh air.

Bala says:

December 29, 2020 at 1:57 pm

I’d have liked to check out queer ecology, but the link goes nowhere now! 🤷‍♀️

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