This week I talk through my hierarchy of ultrarunning recovery tips. If you are increasing your training for the new year, you should also be increasing your focus on recovery. None of the top four items have to do with “recovery” products or supplements. I go through some deer hunting FAQs I get asked a lot to try and educate all public land recreation users. I messed up my one grid fact from last week's episode. Brutal. At least I owned up to it. Talked Patriots. Sledding. No Country for Old Men. Stay warm this weekend.

0:00 Intro

5:30 Peak Snow Devil Snowshoe Race

7:05 Sledding throwback

10:45 Grid fact mess up

13:30 Put it anywhere not in your pocket

22:00 Recovery topics

23:00 Sleep is your super power

26:30 Eating enough food (slash staying hydrated)

29:30 Managing your stress

32:15 Active recovery (blood flow)

33:30 “Recovery” products

36:00 Quick discipline talk

40:15 Patriots talk

43:15 Deer hunting FAQs

69:10 Outro

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This week I sat down with my own mother who is quite the accomplished hiker. She is a Grid finisher, and has completed several hiking lists in New England including the 100 Highest, 67 4000 Footers, 52 With a View, Terrifying 25, and is in the middle of a Single Season Winter 48. We discussed all of these accomplishments and the trails and peaks associated with them. She gave some tips about things she has learned over the years and resources she still uses to plan her hikes today. We talked about a few under the radar hikes. And we went through her experience crewing me through a handful of my ultramarathon efforts over the years and some stories and lessons learned from those.I talked about my new microphone debacle and thinking my crappy laptop computer audio was the new professional mic for two straight hours and having a breakdown with Gemini trying to figure it out. No New England ultramarathon results from last weekend.

0:00 Intro

3:50 New microphone debacle

10:20 Andrea Wojciak Interview

10:50 Hiking background and list accomplishments

19:45 Future hiking goals

27:30 Winter hiking talk

34:10 Shout out Molly

34:45 Most popular Grid Finish peaks

38:00 Team North or Team South Hancock person?

40:00 Biggest single day hikes

47:30 Best NH 4k Hiking resources

56:45 More winter hiking talk

64:30 Crewing me in my first ultra

68:00 Crewing me for Jigger Johnson 100 mile

73:00 Crewing FKTs

75:00 Lodge2dodge FKT Mishap

81:30 Grid 2? And some hiking stats

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This week I talk about my 2024 Hellbender 100 mile 9th place finish. The most pain I’ve ever been in running and the most I have ever learned from an ultra. The trails down there rock. Then I go thru the results from the first New England ultramarathon of the year, formerly the GAC Fat Ass 50k, now the TARC Yeti Trail Trot 50k. Finish off ranking my top three fruit. I didn’t mean to do bananas dirty like that.

0:00 Intro

3:45 Hellbender race and course info

10:48 Flying down and pre race stuff

21:55 Starting off

37:30 Hitting a wall / do I have to walk the last 40 miles in?

53:20 2024 Hellbender race results

58:05 TARC Yeti Trail Trot 50k Results

65:05 Top 3 favorite fruit

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