My friend Tara Dower is going to travel there to race. Keep an eye on her, she’s a dark horse. It’s a fast competitive field so I think it’s going to be epic.
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Happy landings at Sky Harbor. I grew up in Scottsdale so I know Camelback Mt well and other parts that shaped my love of the outdoors.
Hi Sarah. I’m so happy that I found this. I used to really enjoy reading your articles and listening when you were on podcasts, but like you, I got turned off trail/ultra media a while ago. I got pretty burned out dealing with my own feelings of pissed-off-ness after too many weird conservative/mean spirited podcasts or unending focus on the professionalism in the sport, so I just ended up tuning it out. Lately I’ve been hearing and seeing more women’s voices and progressive ideas in trail running media, so I’ve cautiously been dipping my toes back into the waters a bit. There’s some good stuff out there if you look hard enough. Anyway, although I don’t exactly share your thoughts on racing/competition, I super-duper appreciate you saying it, and I see the value it it for folks who are into it. Your ideas, insights and your writing style is a breath of fresh air and I’m stoked for more to come.
First, good luck at Black Canyon - it's a wonderful race. It was a 50k when I ran it the first time in 2015, and I was poorly prepared on the heat-acclimation side of things (and suffered for it), but I really needed a break from PA winter, and it was perfect for that. I returned the next year for the 100k.
Yes to a hierarchy of multiple race goals, and yes to late-race passes (I've always thought of that as "hunting rabbits"), and I play exactly the same counting game (have to make myself wait until at least the halfway point, though).
For the competitive drive part, I think for most of us it (an innate fierceness) is already there, but perhaps buried, and the task is to reconnect with that (I wrote about that here: https://rushofitall.substack.com/p/something-fierce). I'm not sure exactly how to do that, but it might mainly be to just let that part out to play from time to time.
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Have fun at Black Canyon
My friend Tara Dower is going to travel there to race. Keep an eye on her, she’s a dark horse. It’s a fast competitive field so I think it’s going to be epic.
Main reason for a comment is this. Outside Online within the last couple of days modified the paywall so the content is available for broad reading for people to sample everything if they set up an account
The article on their website explaining the roll out is dated 13 February by Asha Demarsh titled “Outside Is Launching a New Dynamic Paywall”.
Happy landings at Sky Harbor. I grew up in Scottsdale so I know Camelback Mt well and other parts that shaped my love of the outdoors.
Hi Sarah. I’m so happy that I found this. I used to really enjoy reading your articles and listening when you were on podcasts, but like you, I got turned off trail/ultra media a while ago. I got pretty burned out dealing with my own feelings of pissed-off-ness after too many weird conservative/mean spirited podcasts or unending focus on the professionalism in the sport, so I just ended up tuning it out. Lately I’ve been hearing and seeing more women’s voices and progressive ideas in trail running media, so I’ve cautiously been dipping my toes back into the waters a bit. There’s some good stuff out there if you look hard enough. Anyway, although I don’t exactly share your thoughts on racing/competition, I super-duper appreciate you saying it, and I see the value it it for folks who are into it. Your ideas, insights and your writing style is a breath of fresh air and I’m stoked for more to come.
Thanks, that means a lot to me! I agree with being turned off by cranky/conservative/mean podcasts & posts. Thanks for reading!
Great piece, Sarah. I remember listening to you and Eric on the Ultrarunner Podcast back in the day. Best of luck at Black Canyon.
First, good luck at Black Canyon - it's a wonderful race. It was a 50k when I ran it the first time in 2015, and I was poorly prepared on the heat-acclimation side of things (and suffered for it), but I really needed a break from PA winter, and it was perfect for that. I returned the next year for the 100k.
Yes to a hierarchy of multiple race goals, and yes to late-race passes (I've always thought of that as "hunting rabbits"), and I play exactly the same counting game (have to make myself wait until at least the halfway point, though).
For the competitive drive part, I think for most of us it (an innate fierceness) is already there, but perhaps buried, and the task is to reconnect with that (I wrote about that here: https://rushofitall.substack.com/p/something-fierce). I'm not sure exactly how to do that, but it might mainly be to just let that part out to play from time to time.
thanks, and thanks for the link! I love the London and Whitman quotes you wrote about :-)