Michael Wardian - Autographed Hat
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List price: $50
Starting bid: $30
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This limited edition "Let's Go Mike" trucker hat is a staple of legendary runner and Chaski Coach, Mike Wardian. Support this great cause and get yourself one of these awesome caps autographed (with your own custom message) by the man himself!
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Chaski Coaching Consult Call with Tyler Andrews​
List price: $69
Starting bid: $40
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This is your opportunity to ask Chaski Founder, Coach, and pro-athlete Tyler Andrews whatever you want about training, racing, and competing. Ty is a multi-time world record holder on the track, trails, and mountains, and world championship silver medalist at 50km. Ask anything you want on this 60 minute call!
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Book Club
Welcome to the Chaski Book Club. Your home for reading books about and/or in the context of endurance sport.
We read a new book each month, with weekly discussion prompts as well as space for open conversation. You can join the conversation in our Chaski Book Club Facebook Group.
March's Read
March's pick is "Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain and Other Big Ideas," by Olympian, Actress, Writer and Filmmaker Alexi Pappas.
In "Bravey", Pappas takes us on an honest and thoughtful look into the highs and lows of her own life. Through her experiences and her own willpower she finds strength, confidence and resilience and shows us we don't have to just pick one lane. Pappas first used the term "Bravey" in a poem,
run like a bravey
sleep like a baby
dream like a crazy
replace can’t with maybe
In the book, with a forward by Maya Rudolph, Pappas details growing up after her mother’s suicide, which occurred when she was just four, and how that defined her future female relationships and how it shaped her. She also takes readers into the world of an Olympian and how the rush of competition can be followed by the crush of depression.
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Do you have ideas for our next book? Let us know! DM us on our IG account at @ChaskiBookClub or message us on our Chaski Book Club Facebook Group.
This Week's Conversation
Early exercise physiologists postulated the human body as a machine and theorized that the athlete with the perfect vitals would be able to run the perfect race. Oxygen intake is one attribute they believe which had a direct influence on an athlete’s abilities. During training, athletes can measure their maximum oxygen intake through their "VO2max"--the equivalent of the body’s horsepower. The more oxygen a person can take in (the bigger their engine is), and circulate through their body, the better they’ll perform – especially in endurance sports. An athlete can improve their VO2 max efficiency by running intervals for 2-3 minutes at their “VO2 Max” pace (which is a pace a moderately fit person can sustain for roughly 6 to 8 minutes).
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Training at your VO2 max and lactate threshold paces, building muscle strength, improving lung capacity and other factors all contribute to your endurance. They improve your vitals - however they also teach you how to better endure pain. The original theory was that the athlete with the best vitals would be able to break the 4 minute mile. "Endure" lays out numerous examples that these factors, while important, are not the full picture. Early research continues to be challenged. We see this in the hour ride and in Nike's infamous quest to break the 2 hour marathon.
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Is an individual’s physical limit set by their body or their brain? Highly skilled athletes feel pain, but it is their pain tolerance, their ability to endure and push through that pain that allows them to go further than others.
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What have you found most interesting about Hutchinson's research?
What tactics do you use to push through the pain and continue on?
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