HeyJaredThe Ultra Trail
The long reads on recovering from eating disorder/exercise dependency, racing ultras, solo expeditions, and a few journeys in between.
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Post-Race Joy: Movement Without Training Structure (opens the original)
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Four days after finishing UTMR, I stared blankly at my laptop screen, the subject lines of emails still marked as unread blurring in front of my eyes. I shut the laptop and took a two hour nap instead. The day before it had been a three hour nap, so, progress. Staying awake for over 50 hours had left a huge bill to be paid by my brain and body.For the whole week, my training calendar had nothing in it. Zip, nada, zilch. I drank Canadian-sized coffees with no concern about caffeine dependency and
UTMR 170: Putting It All Out There (opens the original)
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Every ultra has to have a low moment. The point where you may think you can’t go on, that failure is inevitable, that you hate this, maybe you hate yourself, you definitely hate running, and you just wish you’d stayed at home. I’m used to these moments, but I hadn’t expected it to hit so early on the UTMR. I was less than 12 hours in and on the biggest climb of the course, up to the 3,300m Teodul Pass, when the symptoms of altitude sickness hit me like a tidal wave and I had to seriously questio
‘This will all just be a story one day’ (opens the original)
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Through the long Arctic night, I pushed my fatbike through soft snow in the dense forest. The clouds blocked out the stars, and the tree canopy pressed in on me. Running my front light on the lowest setting to preserve the battery, I was surrounded by darkness, with only a small patch of light shining on the snow in front of me to show me the way.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2PZM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
The Crossroads: Preserve my disordered eating, or finish my goal race. (opens the original)
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Three weeks ago, I drove all the way to Italy to run the Monte Rosa Walserweag 100k (MRT), and I had a bit of a rough day out when my stomach didn’t cooperate at all. The culprit was not (entirely) heat, nor was it intensity or illness or the types of nutrition I had. The culprit was entirely my own lack of gut training, something I neglected out of my … Read more
Monte Rosa 100k Race Report and My Recovery Manifesto (opens the original)
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I’m confused. Remember my first 100k race was actually 111 kilometres in the end? Well, this one my watch had as 84km at the finish line. I guess I got my money back after over-paying on the first one. Trail running is so approximate, and I’m totally here for it.The reason that Monte Rosa Walserwaeg Trail is marked as a ‘100k’ is because it has over 6,0… Read more
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