Ultra Wake-Up Call

You must be one of the ultra guys I am speaking of. Probably Tweet about your runs, post your mileage and a bunch of selfies on some arbitrary run, offer your expert coaching services, pimp socks and sunglasses, etc. Please get over yourself!

So if some company offered to give you free product or maybe even a little cash to wear their gear, even though you're not ranked in the top ten in the world at anything, you'd turn them down on principle?

Get over myself? What a joke. I have never run an ultra. I have never posted on any social media about a run, my mileage (which is relatively low) races or anything of the sort. Pimping sunglasses? Who are you? Oh, that's right...a joke. A jealous clown.

TinMan36 wrote:

You must be one of the ultra guys I am speaking of. Probably Tweet about your runs, post your mileage and a bunch of selfies on some arbitrary run, offer your expert coaching services, pimp socks and sunglasses, etc. Please get over yourself!

The Run Rabbit Run 100 mile this past weekend had $12,000 for 1st place up for grabs and had payouts for the top 7 both male and female. Why aren't elite track runners who are barely scraping by on the track circuit running these ultras?

Am I Dreaming? wrote:

Why aren't elite track runners who are barely scraping by on the track circuit running these ultras?

C'mon now. It is beneath them. An easy $12K for sure, but they would actually have to, you know, run the race and not just talk about it. They'd rather talk apparently.

Patriot Games wrote:

The reason ultra runners don't get the love on letsrun is because so many (not all) are self-indulgence. Even the fast ultra guys would not win most marathons so they increase the distance raced and find far less competition, have self-promoting websites, boast about the high mileage they run, provide over-the-top race reports, etc. Since the internet and social media is obviously hear to stay, it will likely get worse before it gets better.

This could might has well have been a descripton of Kara Goucher.

Ultras are just very long fun runs. Who even cares about who "wins" and looking at the time is completely irrelevant. You can time those events on a sun dial.

I thought about doing an ultra but I didn't want to have to wear a trucker hat, so I decided against it.

Ahh, aren't you clever by putting the word win in quotes. You are really special person.Who wins matters, especially to the people who win money. Have you ever ran a race you knew you would not win? If so, stfu you douche.

ataglance wrote:

Ultras are just very long fun runs. Who even cares about who "wins" and looking at the time is completely irrelevant. You can time those events on a sun dial.

I put "win" in quotes because in order to win one must compete. Just because someone happens to be the first person to cross the line doesn't really mean they won.

If I'm the first person to come into the office in the morning, did I "win"? Ultras are about the same thing.

A complete and total joke.

lol...you are THE joke. Those who don't compete cannot win. The first person to cross the line in a unified start does "win". Coming to my office in the morning isn't a competition. Ultras are competitions. Maybe everyone that runs them don't run to win. But really, in every race, most of the competitors don't expect to win.I guess you need the IQ of a wild boar to understand that. Maybe that is your problem.

ataglance wrote:

I put "win" in quotes because in order to win one must compete. Just because someone happens to be the first person to cross the line doesn't really mean they won.

If I'm the first person to come into the office in the morning, did I "win"? Ultras are about the same thing.

A complete and total joke.

Face it, it's really just hiking.

You know it is, you just dont want to admit it.

Yes, for those finishing a 100 miler in under 15 hours its hiking. Like for those doing 5k's in over 24 minutes its like walking, or for those doing 100m in 13 seconds is jogging. Got it.

ataglance wrote:

Face it, it's really just hiking.

You know it is, you just dont want to admit it.

ataglance wrote:

Face it, it's really just hiking.

You know it is, you just dont want to admit it.

You are correct. There is definitely a lot of hiking. And that's the whole point. IT'S A DIFFERENT SPORT. STOP FEELING SO THREATENED BY A BUNCH OF HIKERS.

But, you do feel threatened, mostly because nobody's paying you to do what you love and you're pissed about that.

TinMan36 wrote:

Former D3 champ, Tyler Sigl, ran 5:27 on a challenging trail course at the Madison North Face 50 today. I believe it was only his second ultra race, the other being a 5:38 he ran at the same race last year. Serves as another humbling wake-up call to the narcissistic, self-promoting, miles posting, product pimping "elite" ultra specialists. Tyler's performance is another great example of how fast marathons do often equate to fast ultras, and as more sub 2:20 marathon guys start running ultras, more of the current "soft" ultra records will continue to fall.

Welcome back, TinMan36.

I figured you'd come calling when this happened.

Didn't know you would stoop so low, though.

Sigl is a good Fcking dude and you know that, brah.

I respect most ultra runners. Guess I'm just old school and fed-up with the ultra runners who constantly pimp themselves, products, their training, etc. I think many would be more respected by the part of the running community who doesn't respect many if they'd just shut-up and run.

Sigl is a very good runner, and not one to boast, post, tweet, etc. He just shows up and wins a lot of races from 5k to 50 Mile.

TinMan36 wrote:

Guess I'm just old school and fed-up with the ultra runners who constantly pimp themselves, products, their training, etc.

You can just say his name, he's not Voledemort. His name is Sage. He looks like a freaking Nascar vehicle when he runs with all his sponsors and his dumb videos. But you can't hate on the top guys like Kilian and Krar, neither of which are self promoters. Kilian of course has the entire Salomon machine behind him, but he's just along for the ride, and Krar just shuts his mouth and runs.