The Ultra Minute ⛰️ August 5, 2024
A race recap from the Wy'east 28k, heat training tips, the TrailCon media panel, plus more of what happened in ultrarunning last week, and the races to watch this week
Happy Monday, ultrarunners! Here’s this week’s Ultra Minute.
Last week in ultrarunning
🏆 wrote about her win at Wy’east 28k, a Golden Trail Series race. Come for the race recap, stay for the photos and her top tips:
🥵 wrote about running in the heat on a recent training run in Boulder, shared some heat training tips, and took a moment to tell us about public land National Monuments:
📺 The media panel session from TrailCon was published on the Freetrail Podcast. This was an interesting conversation and I enjoyed hearing from some of the most well-known personalities covering ultrarunning:
🌱 Stringbean, known for his impressive FKTs, posted some beautiful photos from his recent trip guiding along the Yosemite High Route, and teased that he’s embarking on a big effort in the Sierras in the next few days:
🚑 Alpine Endurance Medicine has a few slots open in their upcoming August 25th wilderness first aid for trail runners course (register here):
🧗♀️ We may not have trail or ultrarunning in the Olympics (yet), but we do have bouldering, which kicks off today. Adam Ondra reminded us and was kind enough to share the schedule for bouldering events this week:
🎥 Billy Yang posted a video sharing what he’s been up to this summer (Mongolia, Wales, and the Dolomites all make an appearance):
Races to watch this week
Sierre-Zinal, the legendary sub-ultra trail race is this Saturday August 10th. Can the G.O.A.T, Kilian Jornet, who missed last year’s race due to injury, get his 10th win? Don’t miss the livestream! iRunFar also has a great race preview to get you up to speed on the iconic race.
Bigfoot 200, traversing 200 miles and 46k ft of elevation gain (and loss) through the Cascades kicks off Friday August 9th. Follow via the live tracker and Instagram.