Keely, Corrine, and Hillary discuss all of the races from the past two weeks and then dive into the recent UTMB/TDS Drama.  They talk through some new findings in the scientific field around the impacts of extremely long efforts on the body and then dive into their backgrounds in sport and whether a specialized or generalized approach to sport is better for youth athlete development. 

 

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Show notes:

 

Sex-Specific Physiological Responses to Ultramarathon: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2022/10000/Sex_Specific_Physiological_Responses_to.4.aspx

 

Malcolm Gladwell v David Epstein debate on development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVey1bV5e8

 

Canadian Sport for life kid’s development model: https://sportforlife.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Long-Term-Development-in-Sport-and-Physical-Activity-3.0.pdf