#billyyang

[ayn]

[footprinting]

Woooooooooo! What a 48 hours that has been! We did it, we did the #gogginschallenge with @billyyangfilms and a spirited global community on Zoom over the weekend. 48 miles. In 48 hours. Running 4 miles. Every 4 hours. And what I love about this most is the beauty created through constraints. Many of us are staying very close to home and have indeed been under lockdown in recent weeks. Our time is different than it might have been in a previous world. 2020 is upside down and forcing us to reevaluate so many things in our lives. Would we have done this 3 months ago? Maybe not. But the simplicity and the challenge and the connectedness captured our hearts. I could focus on what would have been. But that's a past world. No point focussing on an ultramarathon that might have been this weekend, or races missed in recent months. Creativity and thinking with new perspectives helps us in all this. This was a really powerful reminder this weekend. 48 miles (78 kilometres) - tick. Memories made - tick. New perspectives - tick. That love for running - tick. A group of global (and local!) companions - tick. To @chris__howard_ , thank you for always dreaming big and being the catalyst to making this shared adventure happen. ❤️😘 Thank you @billyyang for bringing us together and what a team effort eh! 👑✨🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ #gogginschallenge #billyyang #48miles48hours #extraordinaryultra #bestaidstations https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-99xDHxdMshbqeqQaUrsbF9vhFNNGzsipGMM0/?igshid=1mqmmuw9fyi9f

[pellenyberg]

Film – Leadman, The Dave Mackey Story En dag i maj förändrades ultralöparen Dave Mackeys liv kapitalt. Under en träningsrunda i bergen lossnar ett stort klippblock och slungar ner honom längs med bergssidan.

[footprinting]

This is my beautiful friend @missbassethorn Rachel who is running her first ultra tomorrow at the @taraweratrailmarathon50k , and here we are at Rachel's Springs while exploring today. Bear with me, because there's a story here and a novella of words. Rachel introduced me to Billy Yang's work this year. I've had the great fortune of exploring a goldmine of his films each deep with heart, grit and spirit. One especially has stayed with me this week. Billy @larunr filmed Andy Jones Wilkins @ajoneswilkins 2016 speech to the Western States 100 miler crowd of starters. Guys, if you're reading this: I watched that video over and over and over. I'm not running 100 miles this week. But your words about start lines and finish lines resonate and keep zinging around and around in my head with possibility and energy. It's called 'Before your next 100 mile race' and if anyone reading ever doubts themselves, find this video and believe again.Words below with credit to Billy Yang and AJW / Andy Jones-Wilkins. 🏃❤️🏞️ [Then I ran out of Instagram words, so here's the gem - ] "We have to have faith that we can do this. And faith that goes way beyond our legs and our hearts and our heads and our souls and our spirits.You gotta go. Deep into that place. And if you get to that starting line with confidence, resilience and faith. Its not going to go wrong." #taraweraultra #letsplay #ultra #running #billyyang #ajw #yellowrunner

[longrunsaturday]

Applies to any distance, for real.

[primalrunningretreats-blog]

Such an inspiring film!