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EP 418 Dos and Don'ts of Race Day

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Trail Runner Nation

Ultramarathon, Fitness, Running, Community, Health & Fitness, Trail, Endurance, Trails, Sports

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today was the 30th Annual Way Too Cool 50K . We sit down at the race with Victor Ballesteros and Kenzie MacPail to discuss their favorite Dos and Don'ts of race day.

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0:00.0

Welcome to another edition of Trail Runner Nation. I'm Don Freeman and I'm Scott

0:04.3

Warren. That background noise means we are remote. We are ringside at way too

0:09.5

cool 50k and that sound you hear is a generator. It's the generator that keeps

0:15.0

the arch up. We talked to him about shutting down the generator but the arch

0:19.3

would fall and a finish line arch on the ground is no arch. You don't want people

0:24.1

tripping. It's called a matte.

0:28.2

Hey today we're going to we thought it would be fun because we are remote

0:31.7

just to be a little bit different and we're going to talk to a few different

0:35.2

runners that are going to be coming by the finishers. What is this? Finisher's

0:40.1

tent and we have some do's and don'ts for trail runners on race day. Is that

0:47.6

correct? Well Scott we don't have do's and don'ts. What we've done is scoured

0:52.1

the internet and stole from some top athletes by plagiarized without

0:57.0

permission. Yes but we'll give credit. Oh of course. Anton Karpitschka two

1:01.4

time leadville winner Pam Smith 2013 Western Stage 100 mile champion Michael

1:07.7

Yates Jeff Rose. There are a number of howl corner. Do's and don'ts on

1:12.9

race day and we've compiled them or someone did and then we simply cut and

1:16.9

pasted onto a piece of paper and we're going to choose a few of these or our

1:20.8

guests. We'll choose one of their own and we'll talk about it because that's

1:25.0

what we do in the trails. We just chat about things. We borrow from one another

1:29.5

and pass it along as tribal knowledge. Yes and we may take credit for it and I

1:35.7

don't know if any of us has had a thought of our own. We've probably repeated

1:40.0

something that others have said along the way. You know race day is always fun

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