212. Olympic Trials Stories, Western States Preview, Jim Walmsley's VK, Salty Foods for Training, Broken Arrow Breakthroughs, and Arm Band Heart Rate!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

We are coming to you from Eugene, Oregon at the Olympic Track Trials for this amazing episode! The main topic was on some inspiring stories from the first half of the Trials, which feels like the ultimate party of the US running world. And like most good parties, it features a lot of Snoop Dogg.

We also talked about lessons from Broken Arrow, including Jim Walmsley doing the Vertical Kilometer race prior to the Western States 100, right alongside Anna Gibson racing the VK prior to the Olympic Trials 1500 meters. It's clear that we are seeing something about how this type of skill applies to all types of events, whether those events are 4 minutes or 14 hours!

And this one was full of some of the greatest topics! Other topics: our initial thoughts on Oregon and Tracktown USA, getting coaching credentials at the Trials, birthday reflections, a question on salty food options for endurance events, why Broken Arrow was one of the most competitive races ever on US soil, Jade Belzberg's incredible journey for an incredible race in the 23k, Drew Hunter's gutsy 4th place in the Trials 10k, the psychology of racing in heats, why an emphasis on coaches in Olympics coverage makes David nervous, why Megan thinks it's a weak argument, a Western States preview, how this year's race will unfold, the incredible tech of the Coros Arm Band HR monitor, UTMB's new prize money announcement, and hot takes.

The episode finishes with a meditation inspired by our spiritual teacher, Ludacris. May all of your days and all of your drinks be crunk.

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0:00.0	Whoa! Welcome to the Some Work All Play Podcast. We are so happy with you today.
0:04.8	Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. We're bathing in some oxygen over here this Tuesday.
0:09.2	There is so much oxygen here in Eugene, Oregon. But you know what there is not what
0:13.4	restaurants that allow miners that is true we walked into a bar last night actually
0:18.1	bar is generous sports bar it was an American grill we love finding sports bar and girl because we find it's like the best way to sample the local culture because you go in and you get a lot of locals, it feels like you're at home, it feels really good, and you can get really good burgers there.
0:32.0	And usually quite large servings of burgers and fries.
0:35.0	Almost every American girl we've been to,
0:37.0	we wind up taking home stuff for the next day, which is rare for us.
0:40.0	Yeah, all of these sports bars and girls are the things other places
0:43.2	hate about Americans but makes me feel extra patriotic. And you actually can't get them
0:47.4	anywhere else because we have frequented we visited like American sports bars and
0:51.2	girls over in Europe and it is nothing.
0:53.5	They don't even use salt over there.
0:55.4	They try to impersonate it, but it doesn't quite meet our standards of cuisine and culture
0:59.8	that we're known for here.
1:01.2	Okay, so we go in and they turned us around once we got to our
1:04.1	table because baby Leo was not allowed in this place. It's some weird
1:07.7	antiquated Oregon law about alcohol I believe I was trying to look it up and
1:11.6	it's really convoluted doesn't make much sense to me but that's the main thing we've learned so far at the Olympic trials.
1:16.7	Well the main thing that we've learned too is that we have a lot of logistics going on in our life
1:20.3	whether it's like showing up in an American girl being being like, oh, we have to turn around, or
1:24.3	booking and scheduling things.
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