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no thoughts, just warawara.

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Sinners (2025)

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Update on the crewing and pacing I was supposed to be doing earlier this week: my friend got very heatsick a day into her 200 miler and had to drop (I hadn't left Portland yet; I was on the day 2.5-4 crew). Then a wildfire erupted ON THE COURSE and the organizers had to call off the race and coordinate the evacuation of all the runners, volunteers, and crew. There were six finishers. Screenshot that someone on the day 1-2 crew shared in the groupchat:

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the great recurring tragedy of my childhood

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I'm sorry, I canNOT get over the last one. like--

And we now have a two-year-old in the house! And they said no you may NOT have a selfie

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And we now have a two-year-old in the house! And they said no you may NOT have a selfie

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the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

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Challenging the mainstream world views every day

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Snorlaxing at game night

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Look what Thimbleberry can do!

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The guy who built up a SIX-MILE (insane behavior) early lead on the rest of the front pack also then spent a couple hours sitting at an aid station (albeit the fourth one) (unclear if he's continuing) and got passed by the rest of them. Play stupid games win stupid prizes

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Like, Badwater (for instance) actually has a very high finish rate, but that is because the people running it have specifically trained to run Badwater. They know they will be running in Death Valley and they signed up for that on purpose for some reason. When you are hiking uphill with inconsistent shade for the first 11 hours of your race and it's 100 degrees, it makes a big difference if your training anticipated it being 100 degrees or not. And this race normally isn't, and people didn't train for that, and it's going to have an abysmal finish rate this year.

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Got a text from the front-half crew that my friend stopped peeing and the medic pulled her from the race. :( She's in good company, unfortunately--it looks like about 20% of the starting field has dropped already (if "tracker shows you still sitting at the second aid station three hours after you got there" is a good indicator of that, and I think it is)

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Watching the lead pack on the live tracking leaderboard like enjoy your rhabdo

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Also when my friend saw the heat forecast she revised her race plan. She was going to take nightly naps; now she's instead doing daily naps (and mostly hiking during the day) and then locking in and doing the bulk of her running miles at night.

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I love ultrarunning, lol--my friend's 200 miler started seven hours ago and I've been refreshing the tracker (my back-half crew shift for her starts on Sunday), and even knowing nothing more than people's total distance and arrival times at aid stations, there's a story to follow. An hour in, the top 20 were all men, and this one 50-year-old woman has been picking them off steadily one by one and is now fifth overall. It's 95 degrees there and all the dudes who went out at 8-minute-mile pace are dropping like flies.

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