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Maceration
June 23, 2011 by John Vonhoff
Filed under: Foot Care, Health, blister care
A BAD case of maceration
This weekend is the running of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, over the California Sierras. While around 375 will start the race, the finisher’s numbers will probably fall between 200 and 250.
The main reasons for not finishing will include being under trained, stomach issues, simply missing cutoffs, and injuries.
Injuries are big. There will be sprained ankles, cuts and scrapes from falls, possible wrist injuries from falls, tons of blisters, and this year - a lot of problems from maceration. With higher than normal snow levels, and this week’s hot temperatures, runners will be in the snow more than normal. Plus runoff from the snow will affect trails and stream crossings. These wet conditions will affect many of the runners - leading to maceration. To read the rest of the article, click here for John's Website!!
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Race Across America
Click here for the link to the RAAM Website
The 2011 biking of RAAM just finished and we had 3 alumni of our Double's and Triple's competing in it. Kathy Roche-Wallace, 7 time solo finisher of the Triple IRON competed in the 50-59 age category and finsihed 2nd out of 5 women altogether. The overall winner of the 2009 Triple IRON was Steve Teal, and he raced on the 4 pers team Strategic Global Advisors. And super suport crew for Dave Gaudette (Double and Triple IRON finisher) and his wife Linda (Double IRON finsiher) was Randy Mouri, who raced solo and finsihed 4th out of 11 in the 50-59 men category. Well done to these three.
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- How do you compete in the Double and Triple IRON?
- Do I need a Support Crew?
- Are there teams in the ultra triathlons?
- Lights?
- Med Form ?
- Foreigners Questions ?
- Do people sleep during the race?
- Wetsuits ?
- Volunteering?
- Li?
- Med ?
- Fo ?
The races are normally staged as the normal triathlon format with the swim all at once, then you complete the bike and finish with the run. However, there are a few that are staged with a IRON distance triathlon a day for so many days of that particular distance, i.e. you would start a IRON distance each day at the same time in the morning and when you finish with that days event, you get cleaned up, eat, sleep and get up and start all over again the next day.
Technically No, you don't. However the ones that compete without a support crew are not really competitive. We term it like a NASCAR or INDY race where you have a pit crew that provides all the support for you so you only need to worry about competing. It is best to have a crew that you know (and they know you) as you will have certain things planned out ahead of time. How often you plan on a break, certain foods, chemicals, pills, etc at certain times; and as these races are really long distance, you might not know what certain foods you might want in the middle of it, so you can let your crew know what you are craving at that point and do another lap and they will have it ready for you when you come back around. That is one of the reasons we have shorter distances on the bike and run, so you are not gone that long from your support.
Yes, the Double and Triple IRON has had teams compete in the past and there is usually room in each race for teams. The team can consist of two or three people and you determine how much (or less) someone races.
The old thought was one person did the swim, another did the bike and a third would do the run. However, you can have two or three people and each take a turn doing so many laps of the swim, the same with the bike and the run. The fastest times recorded in the Triple were done this way. We had two different teams (one in 2008 and the other in 2009) that comprised of a woman and man and they took turns taking a couple laps apiece to say as fresh as possible. They were smokin the course pretty good. So you can do the old traditional format with one person doing just the one event or split up the events between two or three people.
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