Trail Runner Nation

Candice Burt, elite trail runner and active blogger, recently created a glossary of terms that trail runners use. For example:

• Paleo
• Bonk
• FKT
• Minimalist

Finally, there is a simple dictionary for you to share with your non-trail running friends and family so they can join in the conversation and understand what you are trying to communicate.

Candice's blog can be found HERE

Check out the races that she directs / co-directs at Bellingham Trail Running

Take the Tailwind Challenge at: Tailwind Nutrition

Check out the cool headlamps made for trail running at Petzl

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Keith Hatfield Keith is a certified physician assistant of 15 years who had a 10 year career as a certified athletic trainer prior to that, including two years working in professional baseball with the Kansas City Royals organization. He discusses the following common lower leg ailments that runners might experience:

• Runner's Knee
• IT Band (stretch video)
• Meniscus Pain
• Planter Faciiatis

As an athlete, Keith suffered from planter faciiatis and tried most of the products that help stretch the foot. Out of necessity, he invented the Hatfield Strap. If you suffer from planter faciiatis, you might want to give his sit strap a try.

Take the Tailwind Challenge at: Tailwind Nutrition

Check out the cool headlamps made for trail running at Petzl

Stephanie Howe, exercise physiologist, North Face elite runner, and coach, discusses nutrition with us. Stephanie is a coach with Rebound Oregon with Jay Dicharry (his podcast)

• Diet fads
• Super foods
• losing weight vs. improving fitness: how and when to focus on each
• Fish oils
• which carbs should you use when training/racing?
• iRunFar interview with Stephanie Howe after winning Speadgoat 50K on 2 weeks training after and injury.

Stephanie's Blog

Take the Tailwind Challenge at: Tailwind Nutrition

Check out the cool headlamps made for trail running at Petzl

Your race is a couple days away and you find out that the temperature is going to be unseasonably hot. How should you change your race strategy? Sunny Blende discusses what you should change and how the heat will affect you. She also teaches us that heat acclimatization will benefit us in multiple ways even if our race isn't hot! We reference the article that Sunny wrote for the September 2013 issue of UltraRunning Magazine.

Here is a list of our other podcasts with Sunny:

• December 4, 2011 Unbreakable Review
• February 21, 2012 Ultrafuel for Ultrarunners
• June 5, 2012 Fueling for your First Ultra
• September 21, 2012 Metabolic Efficiency Training

We also mentioned the Australian, Cliff Young. Here is a video.

Jimmy Dean Freeman sets his sites on the 2014 Last Great Race . This race combines 6 of the toughest 100M races in the same year. In preparation JDF shares his experiences at running AC and Leadville within 13 days of one another.

Oral Hydration Salts

Jimmy Dean's Blog Inpired Running

Closing Song: Son's Gonna Rise by Citizen Cope

Take the Tailwind Challenge at: Tailwind Nutrition

Check out the cool headlamps made for trail running at Petzl

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Sally McRae, Josh Spector, David Daley, and Billy Yang put together this training adventure challenge as a way to prepare for their upcoming race, Run Rabbit Run 100 mile race. A one day summit of the three largest peaks in Southern California - they dubbed it "The Triple Crown", but it has also been called the 8000M Challenge.

• Mt Jacinto, San Gorgonio, and Mt. Baldy
• 40 miles of running
• 14,500 vertical feet of climbing
• 18.5 hours total time
• 305 miles of driving between trail heads

Sally brings her posse (Josh, Billy, Colin Cooley, and Ethan Newberry) to talk about ADVENTURE TRAINING. It is a great way to mix up your training schedule and put yourself in a mock-type racing paradigm. It is a great way to build relationships with your friends and create some memories.

Take the Tailwind Challenge at: Tailwind Nutrition

Check out the cool headlamps made for trail running at Petzl

Get your FREE audio book download at Audible

Pura vida is a characteristic Costa Rican phrase. It literally means pure life, however, the real meaning is closer to "plenty of life", "full of life", "this is living!", "going great", or "real living"

What better way to celebrate Pura Vida and trail running than to take a vacation to Costa Rica and participate in La Ruta Trail Race, a 50K or 100K of challenging trails.

• Wanna make it even better? How about inviting some Tarahumara to participate and give some of the entry fees to their struggling tribes.
• Wanna make it even better? If you are a TRN member (and let them know), you will get a $100 discount on the race entry!

Roman Urbina, a world-class multisport athlete who also puts on the Ruta de Los Conquistadore, a three-day mountain bike race that goes from the pacific to the atlantic - also named as Time Magazines, "top 10 most difficult endurance races" - has developed a trail race that you will love!

The 100K was described by famed Tarahumara, Silvino Cuberase Quimare (From the Novel Born to Run) as "one of the hardest ultras I've done". It claims 13,000-foot total elevation gain and tropical heat for the first half of the race. HERE is a fun video that Costa Rica TV produced.

If you are interested, please contact Roman and he will even help make arrangements for you, your family, and friends: [email protected]

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Warren joins us to talk about what has been on his mind:

• Running isn't just for runners anymore. Despite your epigenetics, there are more people running today - even those who with body types that do not lend themselves to this sport. Boils down to the nature v. nurture debate.
• His new diet: no wheat, dairy, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine. After a month, guess how he feels?
• Fell running (or mountain running) popular in Northern England. Originated in Scotland in 1040.
• Stu Mittleman, "Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster by Exercising Slower"
• The Skinny on Obesity 7 part video series
• The new Royal prince and how that will effect trail running around the world.

Dr. Mark has had a busy summer. He recently returned from running the oldest and largest ultra marathon, Comrades Marathon in South Africa. This 89 km course started in 1921 and has nearly 20,000 participants annually. Our Dr. finished a respectable 869 out of 19,524. While he was out there, he also attended the Sports Medical Conference with Dr. Tim Noakes.

Check out our web site for more links that we talked about www.trailrunnernation.com

In 2012, Vanessa quit her job, sold all her possessions, purchased and RV and set off to live a life she had been dreaming of. She and her companion, Shacky, are traveling around the Americas " living day-to-day, bartering or trading for things that we need, sometimes doing freelance or contract work, and following our whims wherever they take us". We talk to Vanessa about her new book, "The Summit Seeker" a story of her life and how she has ventured to this point. She shares what she has learned about running from Malcom Gladwell, Alberto Salazar and Bilbo Baggins.