Treeline Community Discussions

Elite coach and athlete David Roche was recently on the Rich Roll podcast to discuss his course record win at the Leadville Trail 100. An athlete on the At least one Treeline Athlete and I have already listened to it, but I'll drop it here for anybody else who might find value in it! Discussion topics included: Confidence and taking big risks Heat training strategy Elite 100 mile racing on only 60-75 miles of running per week Recovery and performance nutrition The values of cross training https://www.richroll.com/podcast/david-roche-875/

Buyer beware. It's come out that Spring Energy's popular AwesomeSauce energy gel has sham Nutrition Facts information, and contains approximately one third the claimed caloric and carbohydrate values: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultramarathon/comments/1c27hzh/false_nutritional_info_on_spring_energy_gels/?share_id=1X7N_0FL4K49n7caW3LMD&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=4 Verified by reputable sources in nutritional lab analysis. If you choose to use this product, know that you'll need at least twice as much of it as the nutrition information would lead you to believe in order to meet in-run calorie needs.

We had 6 Treeline Athletes out for some big events this past weekend, and 2 the weekend before that. The season is here and all that winter work is coming to fruition. If you've raced in the last couple weeks, what have you learned? I know one athlete learned that as great as the Topo Athletic Mountain Racer 3 is as a trail shoe, for 50+ mile efforts a little more padding under-foot is nice to have.