#xc race

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Some race action from mbaa series round #1

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Mathieu van der Poel in Glentress, Scotland, during the 2023 UCI World Championships

[carussell]

nadine victory, heidi podium !!!!

[styrofauxm]

Can I see your safety pin collection? 🥺

okay so I used to have an entire bowl, but my mom threw them away (thought they were garbage), so this is what I have now after a few years of rebuilding:

[titelverteidiger]

i love how differently jessie and kerttu end their races

[juliasimongf]

A second place for Lauri!!!!

[coelura]

forgot i cant put video in reblogs but she's insane for this separation

[skhardwarevers1]

I love running so much. Like it’s not complicated you don’t need to be good at it you don’t need to go out and buy xyz beforehand. You don’t even need fancy running shoes really if you’re just running on your own. All it is is just “can I run? Do I want to run?” And if the answers are yes then you can just go out and run! You don’t have to be the fastest person in the world. There’s no standard. You don’t have to run a sub 25 5k or anything you just go out and put one foot in front of the other and enjoy it. Running is literally the best more people should do it

[raapija]

Duality of man

Perttu in killer-mode to win relay silver vs. Giving high-fives to fans while DNF'ing from the 50km race

[cheese-in-space]

I got a PR (personal record for my non runner moots) at my cross country race today!!

21:20 aw yeahhh

Hehehehehehe :}}}}

[kadoodles-on-ao3]

Re: My FFXIV Xenoblade crossover

I'm still trying to get the hang of gpose (and I kind of went overboard in my brainstorming for all the things I want to make haha) so it'll still be a while before it's finished, but here's a sneak peek in the meantime ;)

[dissolveyourfilter]

First XC race of the season. Top 5 baby!! I was close to podium just need to intensify my fitness program and be able to push myself longer. I started strong in 1st and fell back to 7th because I burnt a match to early. Pushed through and was able to catch two more positions which set me into 5th for my first mbaa series race.

[insteading]

Also there are reasons to do things other than being excellent at them! I ran XC in high school and part of college (and after I quit the team in college, I still ran every day for the next two years-- just couldn't spare the time for formal practices or meets). I was solidly a back of the pack runner in high school and very occasionally last to finish in college. I mostly was still getting better throughout the season, I took the edge off my anxiety, I got to be outdoors in the woods while the leaves were turning and falling, and I had delightful teammates to hang out with. Those were all worth the time and energy, even if I never got "good."

What I'm trying to say is, maybe also get some advice from people who are solidly mediocre at the thing but improving, enjoying it, and not giving up, because progress and persistence are also good aims.

I used to do cross country in high school, and there was this guy on the team that was wonderful. Great guy. But his advice to everyone that asked how to get good was to run 20k a day.

If you don't run, I'll just tell you, most people's bodies cannot take that kind of abuse. No matter how much you train, you will not be able to run 20k a day. It's like how you can't train to make your cuts heal faster. You recover as fast as you recover. So while a big part of what made this guy so succesful was the dedication and mental toughness needed to actually run 20k a day, an equally big part was that he healed like fucking Wolverine. And that's fine, but it would've been nice if he knew that and stopped telling new guys to commit suicide by jogging.

Different guy on the team ran like, 5-6k a day, which actually isn't all that much. His problem when he gave advice was that he didn't really get that 5-6k a day doesn't generally produce elite results for most people. He was lucky in the sense that he didn't have to work all that hard to get great results, and unlucky in the sense that if he pushed himself much further than that, he fell apart.

I think about those two whenever I get advice from succesful people. The very things that make them outliers also make their advice useless to most people. Worse, they're often outliers on totally separate ends of the same spectrum, so their advice will be contradictory.

[carussell]

maths time again - xc skiing edition:

there is a total of 345 points left to score in falun (115 in the sprint, 100 in the individual start and 130 in the mass start).

harald currently leads the overall world cup by 157 points. johannes needs to score 52⅓ points more than johannes in every remaining race (on average) to win the overall.

jessie currently leads the overall world cup by 102 points. linn needs to score 34 points more than jessie in every remaining race (on average) to win the overall.

if we only look at the points that will be awarded based on the race result (3x 100 points) and if johannes wins all three races he needs harald to finish no higher than 17th. on the women's side, if linn wins all three races she needs jessie to finish no higher than 9th.

however there are 45 bonus points left on the table: 15 for the sprint qualification and 2x 15 for the bonus sprints in the mass starts. this could obviously mix things up and makes it quite hard to calculate who wins it in the end/who needs which position to win.

also noteworthy: both the sprint and the individual start will be held in classic technique whereas the mass start will be in skating.

tldr: falun will be exciting!

[bikeaospedacos]

WTR anuncia campeões de Mountain Bike do Ranking WTR 2024

World Trail Races celebra campeões de Mountain Bike 2024 no WTR Awards, evento gratuito neste sábado no Rio de Janeiro!

World Trail Races celebra campeões de Mountain Bike 2024 no WTR Awards, evento gratuito neste sábado no Rio de Janeiro! A World Trail Races (WTR) revelou os grandes campeões de Mountain Bike do Ranking WTR 2024. A celebração oficial acontecerá no WTR Awards, marcado para este sábado, dia 7 de dezembro, no Parque Bar, no Rio de Janeiro. Em comemoração à histórica 10ª temporada da liga, o evento…

[titelverteidiger]

for me this is a triple french win. just ignoring the first six