Saw on the big ultra list today that Leadville 100 is offering prepaid IV recovery fluids to runners for $75 and an additional bag for $100. From https://leadville100.10ksportmed.com/Page/Details/2 IV Fluids Intravenous fluid supplementation enhanced volume restoration of your blood stream. In addition to sodium and chloride, dextrose (a sugar substance) is delivered directly where it …
After a couple of years of being hosted at the UO, Conduct The Juices has finally moved to a new domain and to a new host. You can find it here at the easy to remember and easy to type conductthejuices.com Big deal, huh? As my wife said, it is kinda like changing your underwear: …
I had an interesting thread of comments on my last facebook status update two days ago and it has motivated me to write this post asking 2011 WS runners to share. Hopefully it will generate a good discussion, and collectively, we might learn something. That status update was that Lewis Taylor and I, because we …
Finish line at #WS100 is an awesome display of human achievement and exhaustion. Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. That was my tweet a little after 5am on Sunday, after the last 24-hour finisher pushed around the track to cross the line with about 15 seconds to spare before the clock reached 5am. She got …
With all these changes to the Western States course because of record snowfall (or lack of snowmelt) announced today – no Lyon Ridge, Red Star Ridge, Robinson Flat; no crew access until 55 miles at Michigan Bluff; only two crew members at each shuttle aid station after that – I can understand how runners and …