214. Silver Rush 50 Mile and Getting Back Up, Shoe Hot Takes, Fueling Slower Efforts, Unconventional Tapers, Mount Marathon, and Tour de France Stories!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We took some Big Leadville Energy into this great episode! The main topic was the Silver Rush 50 Miler, which David raced on Saturday. The last few months have been a doozy, starting with the bike accident and severe concussion back in early April. It has been hard at times, in ways that go a lot deeper than athletics. This episode is about falling, and the power to GET. BACK. UP.

The 50 Miler was David's best ultra yet, and it possibly sets up a date with destiny at the Leadville 100 in August (or not). It gave us an excuse to talk about so many fun topics: the decision to race after sickness, the non-linear mental health journey since the concussion, pre-race meals, Naked belts, road shoes in trail races, unconventional tapers, altitude racing, the logistics of high-carb fueling and how that relates to effort level, and whether to bicarb or not to bicarb. Plus lots more!

And that was just the start of a celebration episode! Other topics: Tour de France stories including Mark Cavendish's legendary win record, embracing power and finding your strong, the most epic aero glasses, lessons from Klaire Rhodes' win at Mount Marathon, combining ketones and caffeine, the UK's ridiculous Olympic standards, Michelle Rohl's podium finish in racewalking at 58, and hot takes.

David wore Hoka Mach Xs (a road shoe without any traction) for a 50 miler with tons of rocks. So maybe keep that in mind during his spicy shoe take at the end of this episode. Or better yet, treat it like advice from George Costanza, and do the opposite.

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0:00.0	Whoa! Welcome to the Some Work All Play podcast. We are so happy with you today.
0:04.6	Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And I'm feeling the magic of a race streak over here on this
0:09.0	Tuesday. A race streak and magic. What are you talking about? Okay, we've been on a race roll we were at the
0:14.2	Olympic trials Western states we kept it going somehow through Lead Bill and I feel like
0:19.1	we should just keep it going and head to hard rock this is. That's my big proposition for you. So what you want to do is more travel after the last few weeks?
0:26.8	It's been so fun. I feel like every trail race and the Olympic trials too, very cool locations.
0:32.1	It's like we get food, we get to hang with fun people. I think we should keep it going.
0:36.0	Okay, okay, so what other diseases do you want to do that while we're traveling? We've called them all.
0:40.0	Actually at this point we should just go to UTMB. We got COVID at UTV last year.
0:44.4	COVID at Westman States this year. We've got it all.
0:46.1	Yeah, well what I'm trying to do to just play my part is every time I see a water fountain,
0:50.1	I put my entire mouth over it.
0:51.6	Yeah, actually I made the joke at Leadville, so I was crewing you this weekend at Leadville, and they were like mixing it.
0:58.6	So you got in there into the aid station really fast before like things were mixed and they kind of
1:02.9	gestured to have me dunk your entire water container into like the open
1:06.9	container and I was like no no no no we did like a cholera epidemic it was flashing
1:11.3	my epidemiology brain.
1:12.6	You know too much about being a doctor.
1:14.1	So we're talking about the Leadville Silver Rush 50.
1:16.5	If our listeners just heard last week's episode, they're like,
1:19.5	wait, I thought you got COVID and weren't gonna do it.
1:22.3	Well, record scratch.
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