Ultramarathon Daily News | Tue, May 16

Trail and Ultramarathon News From Around the World

Tough trail folks: Here’s an article and list of the amazing athletes who’ve done all three big endurance events from Squaw to Auburn: Western States Endurance Run, Tevis Cup, and the Ride and Tie Championships. We hope to have one of them on soon to describe the similarities between all three.

iRunFar: Nutrion basics for trail running.

I’m not a mountaineer and admittedly don’t have experience climbing, but I can’t imagine leaving my garbage on a mountain. How do climbers rationalize this? Help me understand. Here’s a story about the latest Everest cleanup.

FitBit took data from across the globe, analyzed it, and released a list of the world’s “fittest” cities, fittest US cities, and other categories. You’ll get them all wrong. I promise.

Why use these simple tools when you have an arsenal of GPS watches, heart rate monitors, running power meters and flux capacitors? Because time and perceived effort are more effective in this arena.

–-New excerpt about tracking training for trail runners from Jason Koop. Great stuff.

Interesting: Science: Caffeine use shows performance gains in athletes, but finds no difference between those who abstained and habitual users.

Favorite tweet of the day:

If you want to know all the curse words, ask a foam roller

— Marsden (@RunningLonely) May 16, 2017

I’ll apologize for this right now: “That’s so Trail” rap put to Eminem’s Without Me.

I’ve been guilty of rolling my eyes at “Marathons in 50 States” groups, but this guy made me look at it differently and changed my mind. He’s got a great story, and now that he’s completed a marathon in each state, he’s headed back to Colorado to hike the 500 mile Colorado Trail and bag 14ers.

Science: Cycling not bad for your sex life.

Mario’s Morning Shakeout.

The Onion: Marathon running could cause kidney injuries. What do you think?

Awesome! It looks like the “ultra women” shirt from rabbit is back with some limited availability! Get it while you can.

Housekeeping: Still catching up on emails from the last few weeks. If I haven’t got back to you, I will soon. Sorry about the delay.

Scott Towle says:

May 16, 2017 at 6:49 am

because a lot of these people are not “climbers.” They have little experience and are just writing a big check to get Everest off their bucket list.Reference

Geoffrey Alonso says:

May 16, 2017 at 9:48 am

I get some, like CO, but why so much Wisc/Mich/Minn on the most active cities I wonder? Interesting to see. I also wonder how much of the more consistently active people wear them? I did when I first started losing weight like 5 or 6 years ago but stopped,

Luke Garten says:

May 16, 2017 at 10:07 am

I 100 percent agree on training to Hours a week (time) vs mileage a week as a trail runner. Even as an athlete who does multiple sports in a week I still can only handle X-hours a week of training regardless of activity. The body only knows time of stress not miles.Reference

Rick says:

May 16, 2017 at 10:08 am

Whew hew – Duluth, MN! All those thru hikers and runners on the Superior Hiking Trail??? Or the long winter hibernation (I mean, Fitbit sleep) score??? Regardless, Duluthian’s are living the good life – check out the Bent Paddle Brewery if you’re in doubt 😉

Jacques says:

May 16, 2017 at 12:29 pm

The majority of non-Nepalese and non-Tibetan on Everest are guided clients who are not competent climbers and should not be called as such. They’re motivated by ego and their only skill required is to be able to attach an ascender to a fixed line. When the sole goal is the summit, the thought of leaving no trace doesn’t enter their mind. Some of the Sherpas are no better based on my personal experience in the past, as they’re there to do a job with the safety of the clients being paramount. The article states that every year a large volunteer expedition has to clean up the previous season’s trash. This is not only a waste of massive resources, it also puts the volunteers at risk. Each expedition should be required to bring down their own trash every year, perhaps enforced by the officials that both Nepal and Tibet have at the base camps. A smaller expedition could then continue the clean up the following year.

Mike says:

May 16, 2017 at 1:40 pm

I’ll just slip this Yvon Chouinard quote in here, from the film 180 degrees South:

“Taking a trip for six months, you get in the rhythm of it. It feels like you can go on forever doing that. Climbing Everest is the ultimate and the opposite of that. Because you get these high-powered plastic surgeons and CEOs, and you know, they pay $80,000 and have Sherpas put the ladders in place and 8,000 feet of fixed ropes and you get to the camp and you don’t even have to lay out your sleeping bag. It’s already laid out with a chocolate mint on the top. The whole purpose of planning something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain and if you compromise the process, you’re an asshole when you start out and you’re an asshole when you get back.”Reference

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