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  • OutsideOnline: Tim Ferriss’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning

    All credit to” Michael Roberts at OutsideOnline.com Original Article: Tim Ferris’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning | OutsideOnline.com Effective Incentives shame humiliation peer pressure financial loss Ultramarathoning Running ultramarathons… (isn’t) necessarily what the human body is designed to do. Ultra­marathoners are fit in the sense that they are well-adapted organisms for long-distance running. I’m going…

  • Ultra Marathon Man by Dean Karnazes

    Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner By: Dean Karnazes “The cross-country guys hung out in late-night coffee shops and read books by Kafka and Kerouac. They rarely talked about running; it was just something they did.” “Disillusioned with the trappings of the corporate scene, the things that really mattered – friendship and exploration,…

  • Active Fascial Contractility

    Fascial tissue may the ability to contract and adjust stiffness, potentially to the benefit of athletes under prolonged periods of mechanical stress. Endurance training may include an element of fascial tissue training which would work in conjunction with muscular endurance to further develop our bio-mechanical endurance. What is fascia? “Dense irregular connective tissue sheets in…

  • Tarahumara: Legendary Native Runners of Mexico

    This rare video contains footage from the 1960s and 1930s of the Tarahumara playing their running game. The majority of the video is a documentary footage of a small Tarahumara “community in the transitional zone between the Sierra upland country and the deep canyons to the South.”

  • Scenes from Christopher McDougall’s Born To Run

    Born To Run by Christopher McDougall is easily my favorite book. I’m ecstatic to have stumbled upon this YouTube video of people and places from the book. It was a lot of fun watching and comparing faces and landscapes to what I’d envisioned. This may be a bit of a spoiler for anyone planning on…

  • Important Names in The World of Ultramarathoning

    Ted Corbitt, “father of American ultrarunning”; 1952 US Olympic team member; former American world record holder at various distances Scott Jurek, seven time winner and former course record holder of the Western States Endurance Run; two-time winner and former course record holder of the Badwater Ultramarathon; winner and former course record holder of the Hardrock…