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The Running Public

Training Tuesday: Why Ultras are the Best Race Distance(s)

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Health & Fitness, Sports, Fitness, Sports:running, Running

4.9704 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The training, the current Pro scene, the race itself, and what Ultramarathon fitness allows you to do makes these the best race distances!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.

0:12.4

It's Tuesday, folks, and you know what that means, Training Tuesday.

0:15.7

We are going to take every rabbit hole, follow tangents, use useless metaphors, get lost in the weeds.

0:22.4

This is Training Tuesday.

0:32.9

When you're ready to take your training or racing to the next level, go to the running public.com.

0:38.5

We have both monthly subscription training plans, $1999 a month, and Bracken and I both offer one-on-one customized coaching.

0:47.3

Again, go to the running public.com and check out our offerings.

0:51.1

We're in the thick of it now, Bracken.

0:53.0

We are. It's coming down right now. Right now,

0:55.9

actually, I don't know if you'll be able to hear it on this recording, but there is a front end

0:59.2

loader removing the snow piles from City Hall because they've gotten too big. They're starting to impede

1:06.1

parking. So it's loading it onto a dump truck right now and there, or really like a flatbed pickup truck

1:11.5

in there, hauling it out. Listen, I'm going to complain either way. Do I want a brown Christmas?

1:17.1

I do not. I want a white Christmas. But do I want to run every day in what is required for this

1:23.2

white Christmas? No, I do not. And then it can all go away after New Year's. Then just move me to

1:28.4

Florida. It'll be good. I have come to a strange point in my life where I don't like the heat

1:33.9

at all, but I don't like living in the cold. I love running in this. Give me this every single day.

1:42.2

I don't want to live in it. But there's a difference.

1:44.5

So listen, there's a difference between this and this, meaning the forecast is it's going

1:52.1

to dump seven inches of snow on us and then we're going to go down to negative 10 as a

1:56.4

high.

1:57.2

And now you've got nothing but slick footing and it's negative 10 with 20 mile an hour winds and you're

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