169. Live from Chamonix! UTMB Races, Facing Adversity, and More from Trail Running's Super Bowl!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Running, Sports

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

We traveled halfway around the world to bring you this very special episode from Chamonix, France, the site of the UTMB races later this week! Our sleep is low, but our spirits are high. The main topic was on initial reflections on European racing and UTMB later this week. Our biggest prediction is that North American runners are going to have some major success over here in the coming decade, and we explain why. It's not just because we are extremely biased, though that plays a role. That discussion built into a new study on "physiological resilience" and how there may be a new pillar of training theory. For those scoring at home, that means there are now 4 pillars in the literature. Bonus pillar?! Huzzah!

That's not all! We chatted away the jet lag for one of our longest and most fun episodes ever. Other topics: the ubiquity of adversity, our deep thoughts on Europe, a wild new study on ultra endurance events and cognition, the evolutionary implications of the study, some breakthrough research on heat exposure and hemoglobin mass, hot takes, and an incredible listener corner.

From that listener corner: "The race showed me that strength didn’t come from doing the things I can already do, but trying the things I didn’t think I could."

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0:00.0	We're welcome to the summer call play podcast. We are so happy to be with you today happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday
0:06.3	And we're coming in hot from Shemini actually we're coming in cold
0:09.8	But you especially you're wearing so many clothes. Yeah, it's so against our podcast ethos for me to be wearing a pullover right now
0:16.8	I'm pants pants and socks. What's going on with me? What's wrong with you?
0:20.8	Well, that what's actually going on with me is that we're in Shemini in our little Airbnb
0:24.7	And I haven't figured out how to turn on the heaters here
0:27.1	They're all baseboard heaters and over in Europe. I'm kind of unsure how to do everything
0:31.3	I'm pretty sure that all of the appliances and everything like that is a practical joke on Americans
0:37.0	I have no idea what's going on. Yeah, I feel like if we turn on the baseboard heat this entire Airbnb
0:41.2	It's just gonna go up and fling
0:42.2	It's gonna be like I told you so Americans. No, I seriously think that all of Europe is set up to confuse me
0:47.6	Like every little step of it just makes me feel like the stupidest stupidest American
0:52.5	I was trying to turn on the stove and for some reason the stove heater
0:56.4	It's digital and it goes up to 14 it goes from zero to 14 of the heat settings and I'm like why 14
1:03.3	You know, it's like the old this is spinal tap quote if like turn it up to 11
1:07.5	We turn we have 11 notches. They have 14 in Europe and I have no idea why I kind of like it
1:12.4	Yeah, yeah, I think it's interesting. It's they're like designed to be complicated
1:16.9	Yeah, or maybe just designed to make me feel really really dumb
1:20.2	I feel that way with French language I'm walking around and my pronunciation in American in like English is
1:26.1	Horrific in French. It's even worse. So there's this town
1:29.1	And in my head. I call it lace hoochies
1:32.8	Lace hoochies mega hoochies, and that's 100% not the friends for
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