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@TheGingerRunner It’s about money, period. Money ruins the authenticity of all sports. Money is, most of all, the antithesis of ultra running. I get it, people want to make a living doing what they love, but it’s not the bulk of those who do the sport. Think of how much an Ironman costs?

@MountainRoche @sharmanian Meh. Do the Hardrock, Western, Leadville triple. More variety of running for the true mtn runner. ;)

@sharmanian YES! The hope is a US 100 triple with Western States, Leadville, and Javelina!

It’s been a while #WS100…#embracetheSUC #SharmanUltraCoaching

@ajoneswilkins @badjulio @wser @hardrock100 @LTRaceSeries @JavelinaJundred Recency bias. Otherwise he would have remembered RR100 too.

@badjulio @wser @hardrock100 @LTRaceSeries @JavelinaJundred I thought about Vermont honestly but at the end of the day went with Javelina

Having finally run it 17 years after I first ran it, and I know this will ruffle some feathers, but my Mount Rushmore of North American 100 milers is @wser @hardrock100 @LTRaceSeries and @JavelinaJundred who’s with me?

@campbelladam79 Spent time with Mike on Denali a few years ago…was planning more guided trips with him. So sad. No question he was a special human being. 💔

I was lucky enough to ski, climb, run, swim, dance and have some truly genuine conversations with Mike. He was a special human operating on a different level in so many ways. This one hits especially hard. I’ll miss you my friend ❤️💔

@MountainRoche Paul Dewitt used to give me a progressive TM workout called the Kenyan Cutdown. 2 mile w/u then starting at 7mph, increasing speed 0.1mph per 0.25 mile. How far could you go until you fell off. He would also throw in a 5% every mile for 0.25 when training for mountain race

Today was my hardest workout before the Javelina 100—an uphill treadmill supercompensation session accumulating 60 minutes of intervals at 10% grade, starting at threshold and ending harder. I think uphill treadmill threshold sessions can be magical for some athletes. Threshold work is classically defined as LT2 or easier, around what you could sustain for 1 hour. In practice, that feels relatively relaxed at first, and it only starts to get harder after you accumulate a substantial amount of volume. The rationale of threshold work is that it improves lactate shuttling, helping mitochondria be more efficient at processing and transporting lactate, preventing fatigue cascades even at harder efforts on other days (or at easier efforts in marathons or ultras). In other words, it’s primarily an aerobic stress. Faster is not better. The real-world obstacles with threshold work are twofold. First, for most of us, it’s pretty slow when done right, or way too hard when done wrong. A study on the training of elite athletes found that long intervals had the lowest correlation with long-term growth, and this conundrum is probably why—athletes do their long intervals too hard, breaking themselves down without the mechanical or aerobic stimulus to justify it. Second, outdoor threshold work can be an injury risk. If I tried this workout outdoors, it would wreck my calves and high hamstrings for days. The uphill treadmill can help athletes get around these hurdles. It’s slower by design, putting the emphasis squarely on the aerobic system. That helps athletes develop a much more precise understanding of threshold. But perhaps most significantly, the uphill treadmill reduces impact forces immensely. When I finish one of these—even a supercompensation session—I feel fine the next day, allowing me to absorb way more work (and more specific work to my goals). Particularly with age, I find that running training is about managing the efforts that are high impact to be limited and focused. While most of the uphill treadmill work I do is very controlled, it’s also ok to occasionally dig deeper. Today was about supercompensation. It’s not called The Pain Cave for nothing 🔥

A great player does not always make a great coach. Once you figure out it’s not about you @DeionSanders you will have success as a coach. “The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate” Gruenert and Whitaker

@MountainRoche That is so impressive. The reason MC record stood for so long is because he was the only one to run those slopes. Well done! I remember Max King blasting out to Winfield, tried running up the backside of hope and bonked.

The Pain Cave. Ultras are known for the “Pain Cave,” this mythical place where athletes suffer for hours on end. What I learned after my bike accident in April is that the Pain Cave doesn’t mean “pain” like a head injury or broken bones. It means stripping down the physical artifice of normal life and exposing your muscles and sinew to the world. It’s totally vulnerable, and I (the anxiety-riddled former football player who very few people believed was setting a reasonable goal) wanted to see what would happen when I was stripped down to that vulnerable place. Leadville was my first 100 miler, and I didn’t care when and how I got to experience the Pain Cave. I just wanted to experience it of my own volition, not because of a damn car making a left turn without seeing me. And I learned that I could go into that cave, turn on a light, and find thousands of people giving me love and telling me how I inspired them no matter how the race turned out.  I hope I can inspire other people to do things that mortify them and seem impossible. Because when you venture into the cave and make yourself that vulnerable, I bet that there might be something special waiting for you when you turn on a light 🧡 This video is from the 20% grade on Powerline climb at mile 80. I didn’t want to walk a step of the race, and I was having doubts. I was in the cave. And the believers were with me in this moment, carrying me to a record I didn’t know I could achieve. Thank you to all my cave friends 🙏 Also, on the drive home to our AirBnB after the race, I thought I was dying. It was my first 100, and it felt so strange. I made Megan pull over. She’s a doctor, and she assured me I wasn’t dying. But I wasn’t sure. So I sat there, about to pass out, when suddenly: FARRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT. I let out a 20-second fart from the pits of hell. “It was just a fart panic,” Megan said. Ultras are the best.

@MountainRoche What I think is interesting is that 1. This was your first hundred and Matt’s second, and 2. You both approached the race with dialed in and nutrition. Nutrition is what most people get wrong in 100s. What’s next?

500+ calories per hour. Heading into the Leadville 100, I wanted to chase Matt Carpenter’s legendary time of 15:42. That presented an obvious problem—Matt is a GOAT, who was better than I could dream of being. How can you compete with someone whose VO2 max was one of the highest ever recorded, and who trained with methodical focus in a way that was ahead of his time? Answer: I’d need to disrespect the distance by pushing harder. My plan was to run every step of the course, as close to aerobic threshold as I could, going into Zone 3 when I had to on climbs. To do that for 15.5 hours, I’d have to slurp carbs like my life depended on it, since my glycogen burn rate would be high. Here was the plan for every 2.5 or so hours based on training and the science showing that it’s possible to push up to 120 grams of carbs per hour at higher efforts: * Hour 1: Science in Sport Beta Fuel gel (40g carbs), another Beta Fuel, Precision Fuel and Hydration 100 mg caffeine gel (30g carbs) * 30 min break from gels * Hour 2: Beta Fuel, Beta Fuel, Precision gel without caffeine I supplemented that with sports drink in every bottle, mixed with Precision electrolytes, aiming for 24-36 ounces of fluid per hour. Doing the math, depending on aid station Skratch concentration, some hours I would consume closer to 140g carbs/hr. I didn’t take in anything other than Precision, Skratch, and Science in Sport (not even plain water). I did that for 15:26, a 16-minute record ahead of my heroes who ran Leadville before me. I may not have GOAT talent, but perhaps I’m a GOAT at slurping. This approach pushed the limits of our understanding of human physiology. But to do something I have never done, I knew I’d have to try something that hasn’t been done. If I woke up tomorrow and found out this was all a dream, I’d be ok with that. It was a good dream.  But I think I can say with confidence that despite all of my doubts, I’m not living through some sort of wildly real hallucination. You know how I know? The post-100 gel burps are real. Forget pinching, the hottest way to evaluate whether you’re dreaming is belching. History comes with an aftertaste 🙌 Love you all 🧡 BELIEVE!!!!

@MountainRoche I was skeptical at Winfield because it seemed a little too quick. Many have paid dearly. But Wow. 🤯 Incredible performance! Congratulations! One for the ages.

15:26 🧡 Earlier this year, I put a scary goal out there: chasing the historic 15:42 Leadville 100 record by one of the GOATs, Matt Carpenter. It seemed like low odds. All I knew for sure is that I would have one half-court shot at history. And shooters shoot. Love you all 🧡

@aidstationfireb skyrunner.com/story/2005lt10… In case you’re interested in the level of detail that went into MCs record.

@aidstationfireb I’m interested. However, Matt’s pace all the away back to Pb’ville is consistent. If David is losing time with 50k to go, it is not looking favorable. I am hopeful. 🤞

David Roche is through Twin Lakes inbound in 9:27, now only 12 minutes up on Matt Carpenter’s 2005 split, and 22 minutes up on Rob Krar’s 2018 split. He’s given back 5 more minutes on his CR pace (vs Carpenter) since Hope Pass inbound. #LT100 #Leadville100

@aidstationfireb If they are still on CR pace at Twin Lakes inbound then I’m interested. I’ve seen lots of carnage on the way back. Nice to see the pace is hot with a bunch of runners!

David Roche and Adrian Macdonald are through Winfield in 7:09 and 7:20 elapsed, with Will Murray (7:30) and Ryan Montgomery (7:34) in close pursuit. For reference, Rob Krar and Matt Carpenter split 7:34 in 2018 and 2005, respectively. We are now on course record watch, folks.

@ajoneswilkins Nope. 15.42 is one of the greatest CR of all time. I think about the back side of Hope pass and how that crushes most everyone…except Matt.

15:42 and 18:04. Will either of them go down this year?

@ajoneswilkins Brandon Sybrowski Eric Clifton Billy Barnett Jen Shelton @wolfescw Josh Brimhall

For the next season of Crack a Brew with AJW I am doing a series called “Ultrarunning’s Council of Elders”. Who should I invite on? We’re looking for all the Original OGs!

@iamnot_elon I don’t care. Allegedly, God killed more people than Satan…so why does it matter if it was satanic?

@ajoneswilkins @joelrunsaround I still think it would be the most watched episode of your podcast. Both of you like to argue. If you didn’t care he blocked you, you wouldn’t be talking about it a year later.

@joelrunsaround That’s a hard no. Dude decided to lecture me about college financial aid which had pretty much been my career up until then and when I called him on it he just cowered into his corner. Definitely not “friends”

Give me your milk money, now!

@AlexiLalas As if you know what you’re talking about. Stick to politics.

That was a horrible half of soccer from #USMNT. I wish I could go down to the locker room and tear ‘em all a new one. #USAvJAM 🇺🇸⚽️

BYWho? @BYUMBB

@SMB_Attorney Yes, it’s absolutely miserable here in Colorado year round! Please tell your friends. Especially your friends in Texas.

I found Colorado to be a hard place to live for someone accustom to the East Coast. Even harder than Dallas. Many people are surprised by this and only see the beauty. Why? Incredibly extreme weather. It’s very hot in the summer. Very cold in the winter. It will snow in May (see video of me snowblowing). It’s very, very dry. Each home needs an industrial humidifier. I’ve never had to think about relative humidity before. Extreme wind. 70 degree day? Better check the wind because it might be too windy to enjoy being outside. I’ve never had to think about wind before. Wild fires! The wild fires will start in July and burn until the first snow fall. See the picture from my house of the mountains literally on fire in the distance. Billowing smoke! The air quality can be horrible, you can’t even take kids outside. You smell like bon fire… ash everywhere. The only time I’ve ever needed an inhaler. I’ve never had to think about air quality before. It’s something different each week. Many non-locals get fed up fast! Colorado is fun. Colorado is beautiful. But Colorado can be tough.

@brady_h Ah, the reemergence of Creatine Phosphate. It was a popular ‘novel’ supplement in the 90s for body builders. I did my senior thesis on Creatine Monohydrate in endurance runners. Inconclusive.

I’ve been taking creatine for about 1 month now (2.5 grams per day). 💊 What I’ve noticed: - I feel like I’m carrying a *tad* more water weight. Not very noticeable. ⚖️ - My day to day recovery seems to be better than usual. I can go harder for a few days in a row. 💪🏻 - I’ve felt *much* less sleepy during the day and way more alert when I wake up in the morning. 🧠 - More mental energy. 🔋 Of course, I haven’t measured anything objectively, and placebo effects are a real possibility. Just some observations.

@shawngorham The Mission in Old Town.

Scottsdale - Phoenix friends What are your favorite places to eat? Fast Casual or hole in the wall No fancy stuff - I’m wearing vuori :) Mexican, American, Mediterranean, meat, veggies - the good stuff What ya got?