Babbit_B

Apparently painting your toenails helps with this. You can wear clear polish or you can just say "fuck it" and look fabulous.

All I can tell you is that if you have a sister, wife or daughter reading this AMA, you are now probably doomed to have your toenails painted in glorious technicolour before every event. You're welcome :-p

Because you're using the same muscle groups all the time? Just guessing.

My brother's a UK ultra-marathon runner. He just finished the Mont Blanc ultra in Switzerland (and it damn near finished him - 45.56.58 on a 46-hour cutoff). Even he thinks Badwater is insane, so if that's on your bucket list, hats off to you, my friend :-)

Myself I only run if there's an angry tiger at one end and free cake at the other.

Do you also do all-running ultras? I'd be interesting to know which you found more challenging (say a 100 mile run versus the same distance broken into swimming/cycling/running). Or perhaps the two are challenging in different ways?

Thanks - I'm very proud of him :-)

Yeah, he's done a number of hundred-milers and he says that was the toughest - including DNFs when he was pulled out for hypothermia and that kind of fun stuff. I think the change in elevation is an important element - he was treated for altitude sickness after the race.