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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:A 50k is not considered to be a "real" ultra among some members of the
ultra community. So until I've done a real ultra (50+ miles, rugged terrain,
river crossings, duct-taped feet, blowing chunks at the aid stations) I will
not have achieved ultra runner status. ;-)
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True, true, that's why my first ultra was a 50 miler 🙂 and why I suffered
to finish and walked the last 7 miles to finish the damn thing even though I
could have stopped and gotten credit for doing the first 50k of it.
(Editorial comment: what a dumbass).
Quoted message said:ok, now we're getting somewhere and this further reaffirms my notions
of the whole ultra endeavor. The Ultra could not be more American the
above statement is the history of America, "rugged individualism",
"exploring the frontier", and all the romantic notions of the birth of
the nation. In sum, today, the Ultra is the white's man modern
expression of Anglo expansion. Okay, fair enough.
Well said. Reminds me of the English explorers I read about last winter --
John Rae and Thomas Hearne, both lynchpins in the history of the Hudson's
bay company in the wilds of Canada. The ultra lets us live out
pseudo-adventures, true.
Quoted message said:But where did this originate? "Rugged Terrain"?, "Crossing
Rivers"?....as fast as possible, etc...ya know this stuff sounded
pretty familiar to me and now I know why I have no interest in running
a damn ultra. My people have been running Ultras since 1810....it was
called the "Underground Railroad" where many traveled by foot (and a
hell of a lot further than DK or PR).
That's right...I said it...and the more I think about it, the more
[censored] I am getting. In fairness, a lot of good white people made the
underground railroad possible.
Yea, but they had aid stations, unlike the apache or tara-humari (sp)
indians.
Quoted message said:So once again, we see through the lens of history, the modern day white
man lives out his needs frontierism & expansion in a form of sport
called Ultra that that's basically a watered down version of what the
black man started in 1810, the underground railroad. As is always the
case, the white man steals from the black man and claims it as his own
no different than Rock-&-Roll. We started Rock & Roll, and we started
Ultras too, deal with it.
Don't worry bro, whitey's stopped havin kids, even Pat Buchanan got that
right in his book "the death of the west".
-Tony
