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Sabrina Little: The Vices Of Ultrarunning Fandom (Sunday Conversation)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Sports, Wilderness, Ultramarathon, Sports News, Trail Running, Running, Ultra Running, News, Mountain Running, Ultrarunning

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sabrina Little is a Philosophy Professor and Professional Ultrarunner based in Newport News, VA. Sabrina is also a regular columnist for IRunfar and we spend the majority of this conversation discussing a recent post she wrote about what it might look like to be a good fan, as well as a bad fan, of ultra running during this era of significant change in our sport. Discounts: Rabbit - use code Singletrack20 at checkout on their website (https://www.runinrabbit.com/discount/SINGLETRACK20) to ge...

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0:00.0

Sabrina Little, welcome to the single track podcast.

0:03.0

Thanks so much for having me.

0:05.2

One of the things that we talk a fair bit about on this pod is the merging of unique,

0:10.9

separate disciplines or what we do for work alongside running.

0:14.8

And I feel like you're a great example of this with your eye run far column.

0:18.6

You are doing that with philosophy and our sport can you talk about

0:22.3

what interested you in merging those two worlds yeah so the kind of philosophy that I do I'm a

0:30.6

virtue ethicist and so I talk about how to put on good making features of a human life.

0:42.8

And I realized that what I was doing as an athlete was those very things, right?

0:44.5

So I was practicing courage.

0:46.1

I was practicing perseverance.

0:51.5

I was practicing humility and things like that on a regular basis in my sneakers. And just knowing that, you know, those are the kinds of conversations

0:56.2

that I was having in my work. It naturally lended itself to examine my own running. And I realized

1:03.3

that as an athlete, I was being chastised and challenged by the things that I was learning about in philosophy, like, what does it mean to

1:13.2

live a good life? What is suffering? Like, what's the nature of suffering? Why do we voluntarily

1:18.8

suffer? What does that add to a life? And so that was making my, it was enriching my,

1:25.3

my running life. And so I just started having conversations with other people and realizing that,

1:32.2

you know, other people had the same kinds of concerns and questions.

1:36.5

And so it kind of grew from there.

1:38.5

And I've been really thankful for the opportunity that I run far as given me to just

1:43.3

think out loud.

1:45.6

Super cool. You said a lot of interesting stuff there. One bit was around how much you've

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