Roman Urbina runs with the Tarahumara
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Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 30 August 2013
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Pura vida is a characteristic Costa Rican phrase. It literally means pure life, however, the real meaning is closer to "plenty of life", "full of life", "this is living!", "going great", or "real living"
What better way to celebrate Pura Vida and trail running than to take a vacation to Costa Rica and participate in La Ruta Trail Race, a 50K or 100K of challenging trails.
- Wanna make it even better? How about inviting some Tarahumara to participate and give some of the entry fees to their struggling tribes.
- Wanna make it even better? If you are a TRN member (and let them know), you will get a $100 discount on the race entry!
Roman Urbina, a world-class multisport athlete who also puts on the Ruta de Los Conquistadore, a three-day mountain bike race that goes from the pacific to the atlantic - also named as Time Magazines, "top 10 most difficult endurance races" - has developed a trail race that you will love!
The 100K was described by famed Tarahumara, Silvino Cuberase Quimare (From the Novel Born to Run) as "one of the hardest ultras I've done". It claims 13,000-foot total elevation gain and tropical heat for the first half of the race. HERE is a fun video that Costa Rica TV produced.
If you are interested, please contact Roman and he will even help make arrangements for you, your family, and friends: rurbina@adventurerace.com
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| 0:00.0 | today's tailwind tip of the trail comes from Scott war Scott what do you |
| 0:14.0 | have you know I'm glad that I can join tail trail runner nation today we're |
| 0:17.4 | happy to have this tailwind nutrition tip of the trail I'm gonna tell you if |
| 0:22.5 | you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time you know I I have |
| 0:27.7 | one Achilles heel that's a kind of a metaphor right or left Scott it's a |
| 0:32.0 | metaphor oh and that is my feet bottom on my feet get blisters and I have |
| 0:38.0 | struggled with blisters since day one and as we've talked most of that time they |
| 0:44.3 | don't happen on a training run they happen on race day I can go for a three |
| 0:47.6 | hour training run and then have no problem but then on race day for some |
| 0:51.3 | reason at hour two I'm getting blisters one thing that I have found that |
| 0:57.3 | works extremely well for preventative blisters is kinesiotape are you |
| 1:03.4 | familiar with that I am kinesiotape is what that volleyball player put on |
| 1:08.6 | her arms few Olympics ago you know it's used to kind of keep muscles from |
| 1:13.8 | contracting I don't know what it's for but that's not what I use it for what I |
| 1:17.6 | do is when I know I'm going out on the long run I use take some kinesiotape |
| 1:22.0 | watch my that my heels is where I I have a huge problem with blisters my whole |
| 1:27.4 | heel will blister up so what I'll do is I'll I'll tape that up with the kinesiotape |
| 1:31.0 | it's very flexible it's very very adhesive and I know how much you like |
| 1:36.1 | adhesives and it actually helps me prevent blisters on the bottom of my feet so |
| 1:43.8 | go get yourself some kinesiotape I thought you were going to say that you |
| 1:48.0 | soaked your feet and ebbsum salts in tail in tailwind nutrition it has it would |
| 1:53.5 | be funny it has some electrolyte quality to it right and ebbsum salt is an |
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