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EP 462: COVID-19 Cancelled Our Race

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Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

SPECIAL EDITION:

We recently posted a letter from the Ultra-Endurance Sport Science & Medicine web site.  This letter makes recommendations for our sport during this pandemic.  Dr. Marty Hoffman, co-author, joins us to explain how this virus can affects our community.  Bob Crowley, Trail Animals Club, also explains how this affects our race season.

Here is the link to Corrine Malcolm's article at irunfar

For an updated status on race cancelations:

Be a solution, Be kind...mãs!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast brought to you by our favorite people, our race directors.

0:10.8

It's a public service announcement.

0:12.3

It's those volunteers and the race directors that work so, so hard to put on these great

0:19.9

races that we benefit from.

0:21.7

And we're, today's discussion is early.

0:24.9

As you notice, it's Tuesday.

0:26.3

We're going to release it today and we're talking about COVID-19, the virus that everybody's

0:31.7

talking about.

0:33.0

And sometimes we think selfishly, and I'm guilty of that, how this affects me.

0:37.0

My race has been taken off the calendar now.

0:39.4

And so initially a bit frustrated and some anxiety and anger.

0:44.6

And then we forget about the race director that might be losing more than just a bib.

0:48.6

There's a financial piece to this.

0:50.2

Some of these race directors do this for a living.

0:53.2

And the reason we wanted to put a front end on this after we stopped recording is we forgot

0:58.3

about, we didn't think to mention that there's sometimes a life to lose from this.

1:03.5

And we didn't bring that up on this podcast, there's more to lose than a bib.

1:08.9

And you know, you may have a grandfather, a father, a wife, a mother, a dear friend, a dear

1:14.7

friend that could very well lose their life to this ugly, ugly virus.

1:22.0

So we need to get past ourselves.

1:24.7

We talked with Bob after we stopped recording about, all of us have had our aha moment with

1:30.3

this virus.

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