Running Viral Day 2
Yesterday I wrote on twitter, "Today, as an ultra-experiment in movement-through-landscape, I ran with my Salomon trail shoes in my Kalenji trail bag, and with Leki carbon-fibre poles. I switched shoes when entering the forest, and folded up the poles when leaving it." Here is the track I made during that experiment.
I've also been contemplating, quite seriously, Finn's new definition of ultra-running, posited on a recent podcast, an interview with Beth Pascall. In it, Finn says that to call the sport 'ultra-running' doesn't do justice to an essential aspect, that of movement. He then say we should really call ultra-running "ultra-moving-through-landscape" to take into account the other (often non- or para-running) aspects of what it means to successfully
complete an 'ultra' race.
I was joking yesterday that given the above statement (again quoting from twitter), ""ultra-movement-through-landscape" comes from @adharanand latest podcast. To be fair, he should probably change the title of his book to "The Rise of the Ultra-Movers-Through-Landscape," a statement that got a 'like' from Finn himself!
In all seriousness, though, yesterday was Day 2 according to my own procedures (I'm writing this in Day 3 of my Running Viral experiment), and I added another layer to my Tentative d’epuisement d’un lieu bracknellien that forms the core methodology of Running Viral.
In short, I went running for three hours yesterday in Bracknell Forest, re-tracing an old club run from a couple of months ago, in which I had run with a group down to Owlsmoor. Instead of finishing the course (a pre-defined track that you follow using your Garmin watch), I deviated just before exiting the forest, and added on five miles following the Forest Five race route.
This made for the hybrid Strava track that you see as the first image of this post. The Leki poles I used checked out brilliantly, and I love running with poles. Running in my Salomon trail running shoes for that long (just the forest component) was possibly the biggest challenge, as the shoes tight fit meant extra foot soreness after 20+ km.
Today I will continue my attempt to exhaust the space of Bracknell by running through it, with a 10km recovery run.
Yesterday I wrote on twitter, "Today, as an ultra-experiment in movement-through-landscape, I ran with my Salomon trail shoes in my Kalenji trail bag, and with Leki carbon-fibre poles. I switched shoes when entering the forest, and folded up the poles when leaving it." Here is the track I made during that experiment.
I've also been contemplating, quite seriously, Finn's new definition of ultra-running, posited on a recent podcast, an interview with Beth Pascall. In it, Finn says that to call the sport 'ultra-running' doesn't do justice to an essential aspect, that of movement. He then say we should really call ultra-running "ultra-moving-through-landscape" to take into account the other (often non- or para-running) aspects of what it means to successfully
complete an 'ultra' race.
I was joking yesterday that given the above statement (again quoting from twitter), ""ultra-movement-through-landscape" comes from @adharanand latest podcast. To be fair, he should probably change the title of his book to "The Rise of the Ultra-Movers-Through-Landscape," a statement that got a 'like' from Finn himself!
In all seriousness, though, yesterday was Day 2 according to my own procedures (I'm writing this in Day 3 of my Running Viral experiment), and I added another layer to my Tentative d’epuisement d’un lieu bracknellien that forms the core methodology of Running Viral.
In short, I went running for three hours yesterday in Bracknell Forest, re-tracing an old club run from a couple of months ago, in which I had run with a group down to Owlsmoor. Instead of finishing the course (a pre-defined track that you follow using your Garmin watch), I deviated just before exiting the forest, and added on five miles following the Forest Five race route.
This made for the hybrid Strava track that you see as the first image of this post. The Leki poles I used checked out brilliantly, and I love running with poles. Running in my Salomon trail running shoes for that long (just the forest component) was possibly the biggest challenge, as the shoes tight fit meant extra foot soreness after 20+ km.
Today I will continue my attempt to exhaust the space of Bracknell by running through it, with a 10km recovery run.
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