Eventually, Your Legs Aren't Coming Back
Acceptance in ultra running, Kilian's Gamble, the NNormal Cadi, and more from Borderlands.
The Bear + Wasatch, Back to Back
Michael describes a moment every runner faces: his legs weren’t coming back. The day he'd been given was the day he was going to have.
Ultra running teaches us to solve problems. Then sometimes you’re left with something that can’t be solved. What Michael describes isn’t toughness. It’s acceptance. The ability to stop negotiating with reality and work with what’s actually in front of you.
The conversation starts with two hundred-mile races. It ends somewhere much broader than that.
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Kilian’s Western States Gamble
by Bryce Carlson
The lead-up to Western States hasn’t been clean. He raced Zegama, a race he loves and has won so often he feels stitched into the place. But this year his leg stopped cooperating. He felt fine climbing. On flats and downhills, he couldn’t control it. Then it started to hurt. So he backed off, took in the crowd, thanked people, and treated a bad day at a race he loves like something other than an emergency.
NNormal Cadi | Built for Comfort, Not for Kilian
The NNormal Cadi seems to believe that trail shoe quivers have arrived in America.
I first heard my friend Ryan Ramsby talk about it after finishing Cocodona 250. The idea is simple: we’re moving away from one shoe that does everything and toward collections of shoes that each do something specific.
For most of my running life, that wasn’t how I operated.
I’d buy one pair of trail shoes and run every mountain around Salt Lake City in them. When the soles wore down, they became road shoes. When they wore down even more, they became yard work shoes.
Nike ACG LDV, Nostalgia,
and the Cost of Optimization
From vintage Nike silhouettes to modern super shoes, Josh and Inky explore why some products stay with us long after better technology arrives, and whether trail running has lost a little of its willingness to be weird.
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