Comments on: Prepare Yourself: Ultra Racing

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By: Mark Scholl

Mark Scholl — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:27:54 +0000

Great job, Lisa! Keep up the running.
Hyperphil – I understand you philosophical question, and mainly agree it is mostly just that. I feel that focusing on 26.2 is a road running mentality and once you hit the trails, a different standard applies. I have run many road and trail races from 5K to Marathon and “ultra” distances up to 50 miles. Sometimes I feel that I’m not a true “ultra” runner since I haven’t done a 100 miler yet. More often, I’m inclined to include a local 17 mile trail run with killer vertical as an “ultra” (I have felt more beaten up after that one than some road marathons). To me, trail running is less about definitions and more about getting out and logging an extraordinary effort. I wouldn’t take the ‘ultrarunner’ moniker away from Lisa, but I can see why you might argue to. Part of why I enjoy the trail community is because they are less about hard definitions and more about camaraderie. I even stopped wearing a watch a couple years ago to run more to internal cues than external rigidity of a clock (I promise I’m not a hippie). Everyone can decide their own definitions around the “ultra” question, if you say no, fair enough. For my two cents, I think an ultra-runner is someone who looks at themselves that way for their extraordinary accomplishments, and Lisa fits that definition well enough for me.
More miles!
M

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By: Hyperphil

Hyperphil — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:57:56 +0000

Philosophical question: is it an ultra when less than 26.2 miles are covered in 24 hours? Have I run an ultra when I run 113 miles in a training week (something I did twice this year)? Perhaps a better title to this article would be “Prepare Yourself: Endurance Racing.” Unless one of the stages to the race was 26.23 miles or more, I do not feel that the “ultra” designation is appropriate. This is coming from someone who has been seen running laps around the Aspen Grove Trailhead parking lot because the training run came in at 26.1, and I needed the extra distance to run an “ultra.” Cheers.

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By: Arnaud Bachelard

Arnaud Bachelard — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:23:55 +0000

For ultra racing, you next step will be that : http://www.ultratrailmb.com/accueil.php

Bienvenue à Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France !

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