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The mindset of a champion.
❝I panicked for about five minutes before suddenly it hit me: why *couldn’t* I be the race leader? Why *shouldn’t* I be the one leading this race?
—Rachel Entrekin
https://open.substack.com/pub/rachelentrekin/p/extremely-admirable-and-confusing?r=1n6v12 -
The mindset of a champion.
❝I panicked for about five minutes before suddenly it hit me: why *couldn’t* I be the race leader? Why *shouldn’t* I be the one leading this race?
—Rachel Entrekin
https://open.substack.com/pub/rachelentrekin/p/extremely-admirable-and-confusing?r=1n6v12 -
❝“…You should see me now,” I said. “I am so tired. I am stumbling through these forests. I don’t know how many times I stubbed my toe on these rocks… . But it is so beautiful. You should see it.”
—Nicole Linke
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❝When you run for hours and hours, you just focus on each step […]. You live *that moment*. For all those moments adding up, you get to defy the laws of physics.
—Henriette Lazaridis
https://open.substack.com/pub/henriettelazaridis/p/trail-running-against-the-laws-of?r=1n6v12 -
❝Of course, I can’t do what [Kara Goucher has] done in competition […]. What I can relate to, though, are the difficulties she’s gone through and the courage she’s shown in overcoming them. And maybe — maybe? — that’s something I can replicate in my own life.
—Terrell Johnson
https://open.substack.com/pub/halfmarathons/p/on-resilience?r=1n6v12 -
❝For so long, I’ve leaned on adventures to feel alive. Big experiences, big emotions, a big dose of doing to infuse life with meaning and purpose. […] Take away those certainties, and the hard work of living begins.
—Jill Homer
https://open.substack.com/pub/jilloutside/p/learning-to-walk-again?r=1n6v12 -
❝Only in modern times, when everything that can possibly be medicalized has been medicalized, has pain come to be regarded as pathological—something you need a pill for.
—Ryan Whited
https://8020books.com/a-new-way-to-understand-and-manage-pain/ -
One of the *best* things about ultras.
❝One of the sure things about ultras is that you can never count on an outcome.
—John Maynard
https://open.substack.com/pub/runandgetit/p/everything-is-fine?r=1n6v12 -
❝– The outcome matters deeply to you
– The situation is unfamiliar or unpredictable
– You’re putting internal pressure on yourself
– Training has shifted from “want to” to “have to”
What all of these have in common: your brain has interpreted the race as a threat.
—Carrie Jackson
https://www.8020endurance.com/performance-anxiety-endurance-sports/ -
❝It captivated me, and overwhelmed me. Do people really walk that far? How could this trail through my mountains lead farther from home than I’ve ever been in my life? Is someone else standing on it a thousand miles away wondering the same thing?
—John Kelly/Jonathan Turner
https://run247.com/running-news/ultramarathon-news/john-kelly-appalachian-trail-attempt-2025 -
❝It’s interesting that this decrease in performance [after limiting post-training #carbohydrate consumption] occurred even though the participants’ muscle glycogen levels were the same as before the first day.
—Daniel Rowland
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwrowland/p/research-studies-from-6-to-12-jan?r=1n6v12 -
❝No, it was no big shaker, owt like that, you know. It’s one of them things that, you know, you has to do, and you go along, and you do your best, and you don’t tell anybody about these things unless they want to know.
—Joss Naylor
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2024/dec/18/king-of-the-fells-joss-naylor-the-shepherd-with-an-unbeatable-running-record -
❝Due to the festive nature of these races, you see all kinds of crazy things- runners dressed as turkeys, pilgrims, or even pumpkin pie.
But I bet you’ve never seen an actual turkey do a turkey trot.
—Brittany Vermeer
https://triplethreatlife.substack.com/p/a-turkey-trot-transformation?r=1n6v12This is heartwarming and sweet and I wish we had more stories like that.
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❝Peak fitness and sustainable training loads are simply incompatible, and this is the number-one reason it’s necessary to periodize.
—Matt Fitzgerald
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❝There is no optimal [#carbohydrate] ratio. The ratio that is optimal will change depending on amounts ingested. If 90 g/h is ingested it should be around 2:1, but if more is ingested, for example 120 g/h, 1:1 is likely better. There are many commercial preparations with claims of the best ratio, but the reality is that there is no best ratio.
—Asker Jeukendrup
https://www.mysportscience.com/post/the-optimal-ratio-of-carbohydrates