{"id":89844,"date":"2020-05-02T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=89844&preview=true&preview_id=89844"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:52:45","slug":"elementor-89844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/elementor-89844\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Run as long as you can until you can’t’: The motivation behind ultrarunning"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Caroline Kurdej
\n<\/strong>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Ultrarunner Andrea Kooiman was never a superstar cross-country runner in high school. \u201cI really only joined because there was a dude on the team I liked,\u201d she said with a giggle.<\/p>\n

Yet since her high school days, Kooiman has competed in 150+ ultramarathons and marathons. Now, at 44, she\u2019s crossed the Boston Marathon finish line. She also ran just a bit farther and finished the 2018 Vol State 500K (310.68 miles) in 110 hours, 40 minutes and 59 seconds.<\/p>\n

Kooiman co-founded We Run Orange County\u2019s Kids<\/a>, a nonprofit that enrolls 12- to 18-year-olds in a seven-month, $750 training program to run the Orange County Marathon.<\/p>\n

Kooiman fits her runs in whenever she can, often when her family is fast asleep at 4 a.m. She bolts out of the house, fully equipped with a head lamp to light the way on the trail in the frigid darkness. If not, she squeezes runs in before her full-time job as a sports marketer at Road Runner Sports<\/a>, her 12-year-old daughter\u2019s dance classes or when the others are at work.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the flip side, I\u2019ll put the family to bed, and do something from midnight until sunrise,\u201d Kooiman said. She then takes her daughter to school, steals a nap and heads off to coach for the youth program.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a precarious balancing act. \u201cHow many times have I met a friend out for dinner or for a drink and then planned a route, packed a bag, and threw it in their car knowing I\u2019d see them later?\u201d she said. Kooiman still wants to be social while also logging immense miles any time of day and night. Adaptability is key. Her longest run, when she\u2019s training for a 100-mile race, is 50 miles.<\/p>\n

Officially, an ultramarathon is any race past the marathon distance of 26.2 miles, though their lengths vary from 50 kilometers (31.06 miles) to New York\u2019s 3,100-mile Self-Transcendence<\/a> ultramarathon, which is run around a single city block. The current women’s record for that race is held by Kaneenika Janakova who completed the \u201cEverest of ultra-running<\/a>\u201d in 48 days, 14 hours, 24 minutes and 10 seconds.<\/p>\n

The rise of the sport\u2019s popularity far outruns its competitors\u2019 slower paces. Ultramarathon races have reached a historic peak in popularity around the globe, increasing by 1,676%, from 34,401 ultrarunners to 611,098 participants, over the last 23 years, according to a recent study<\/a> by Run Repeat.<\/p>\n

Kooiman expressed how ultrarunning tends to exhibit many individuals from \u201cbroken pasts.\u201d Those difficult pasts enable them to \u201cdig deeper into the pain case, and be OK with not being OK.\u201d The discomfort allows ultra distance athletes to accomplish magnificent feats and use their pain to some benefit.<\/p>\n

Unlike life\u2019s uncertainties, in ultrarunning, \u201cI own the pain. It wasn\u2019t inflicted on me. It wasn\u2019t brought upon me. I chose it,\u201d Kooiman said. \u201cAnd because I chose it, I get to control it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since COVID-19\u2019s impact, WeROCK had to transition from group runs to solo efforts. Kooiman encouraged all of the kids to join Strava and created a private strava group to watch their progress. It\u2019s been a great way to stay connected, give “kudos” and comment on their runs. The group feels the “community” even though they are apart. Additionally, one of the coaches recorded some core workouts and the group even logged on together to do some yoga on Zoom.<\/p>\n

As for Kooiman\u2019s own fitness level, all of her big races have been cancelled. She had a 330-mile race coming up in July and with that gone and Kooiman suddenly finding herself unemployed, \u201cit was difficult to focus on waking up early anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

She entered a few virtual races so that she had a goal and ran a 50-mile event (completely solo) around her neighborhood streets. Unlike other states and various parts of the country, Kooiman is fortunate that her local trails are still open.<\/p>\n

She began to set her alarm early once again to beat the others into the open space and be back in time to help her daughter with online learning. Although she claims her daughter doesn’t need her help at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose moments when I am on the trail are when life feels normal again,\u201d Kooiman said. \u201cI force myself out the door so I can have those few hours where there is no social media, constant news updates or sorrow-filled posts. I am able to look out at the open fields and remember that nature recovers and so shall we.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others don\u2019t suffer from tribulations but seem to search for them.<\/p>\n

Adharanand Finn, author of “The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance” <\/i>and writer for The Guardian, completed 10 ultra races over the course of two years.<\/p>\n

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Adharanand Finn scales a mountain (Courtesy of The Scotsman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have enough trauma in my life to be doing this,\u201d Finn said, chuckling.<\/p>\n

As a former marathoner, Finn would head out for 16-, 18- or 20-mile runs. The only difference existing in his training for ultras were the four-to-five-hour long runs, which often entail thousands of feet in elevation change and hills.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn most of the ultra runs, you have a moment of crisis where your body is screaming to drop out of the race,\u201d Finn said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to have that reason going strong \u2014 why you need to keep going, why you need to finish the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

An ultrarace demonstrates a runner\u2019s control of what happens between the start and finish line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have the grit and if you have the stubbornness and if you have that desire to burn deep, to keep moving, then you can finish it,\u201d Kooiman said.<\/p>\n

Despite a resilient attitude, an ultramarathoner\u2019s body takes some inevitable hits from the physical exertion of running. Guillaume Millet, leading expert on neuromuscular fatigue in ultramarathons, competed in the UTMB \u2014 and placed top six three times.<\/p>\n

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Guillaume Millet strides miles over mud, mountains and more. (Courtesy of Echo Sciences Grenoble)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In his 2018 study<\/a>, Millet found sleep deprivation hurts the brain\u2019s cognitive performance, evidenced in the increased reaction time and lapses during attentional tasks. \u201cYou\u2019re running the same speed, and if you haven\u2019t slept, you\u2019ll think \u2018Yes, this is hard,\u2019\u201d Millet said.<\/p>\n

Millet recommends incorporating \u201cshock weekends\u201d in training cycles \u2014 venturing into the mountains and tackling uphills and downhills at similar race speeds as during the ultra. Muscle fibers build up resistance to the damage and strengthen the body for the hardships experienced during ultraraces.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go into the mountains and train almost like you\u2019re doing an ultra, except that you take some rest in the night,\u201d Millet said.<\/p>\n

But taking naps cuts into race time. Millet recommends opting in on caffeine gels (which is not considered doping), and stocking up on sleep the week before \u2014 that is, \u201csleep banking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as Millet advises, many ultra-athletes embark on arduous training runs. The former Cosmopolitan-selected 2011 Montana Bachelor of the Year<\/a>, Casey \u201cDov\u201d Weinman, is one of them. Weinman\u2019s hometown of Eugene, Oregon, is unofficially, the City Where Everyone Runs.<\/p>\n

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Casey “Dov” Weinman posing for Cosmo’s 2011 Montana Bachelor of the Year.\u00a0 (Courtesy of Cosmopolitan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been a product of my landscape, and western Montana re-molded a runner more keen to run up mountains than around ovals,\u201d Weinman said.<\/p>\n

When asked where he finds his \u201cthird gear,\u201d Weinman said, \u201cThe only gear I have left is \u2018mountain gear,\u2019 and it isn\u2019t a particularly fast one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The transition from 800-meter races to 100-mile races was a product of \u201cself-awareness,\u201d Weinman says. He ran half a mile in a 1:51.93 for the University of Montana track team in his college days. Yet, he struggled to get through cross-country seasons healthy. \u201cI became a better listener to what my body needed in order to manage long days and big climbs,\u201d Weinman said. He left his watch at home and ran for hours until the trail loop brought him home. \u201cThat mind-body trust develops \u2014 then all the distances become imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n

What spurs ultrarunners to cross the finish line?<\/p>\n

\u201cI know, worst-case scenario, there is a start and finish to my pain,\u201d Kooiman said. \u201cI can justify it.\u201d The word \u201cretirement\u201d doesn\u2019t exist in the 44-year-old\u2019s dictionary. \u201cI will run as long as I can, until I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weinman attributes every one of his ultrarace finishes to a mantra he draws from Lewis Caroll\u2019s \u201cAlice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland,\u201d as stated by the King of Hearts:<\/p>\n

\u201cBegin at the beginning … and go on till you come to the end: then stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Andrea Kooiman smiling victoriously at the Barkley Fall Classic 50K in Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee. “By the end, most are covered in blood and their skin is shredded from briar kisses,” Kooiman said. (Courtesy of Misty Wong)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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