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Lazarus Lake

lines on the record: 81
first: 2023-09-20
most recent: 2023-09-20
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“No, I walked some interstate. I walked open range I cut across parking lots and I was committed to having a continued string of footprints from coast to coast, but I was not committed to them going any particular place. The easiest way I could get through the better.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hm for myself when I'm involved in something like this, there's not really time to give myself a pep talk Totally absorbed with doing what I'm doing. I actually prefer to approach things with a little bit of doubt a couple of years ago I walked across the country and people would tell you I walk from the east coast to the west coast could still smell the ocean and people say you've got this and I think well then why go through all this discomfort if I already know I can so I believed I could make it to the Pacific Ocean when I topped the last mountain in the coastal range and I could see it”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a combination in any of the endurance events. You really have to have two things in your mind. One is that you're focused on finishing. You can't do a 100 mile, any 100 miler and say, I'm going to run 50 miles and then evaluate because I can save you a lot of trouble at 50 miles you're going to decide to stop. But at the same time, you have to live in the moment. You can't think about how much is ahead of you because your mind just can't wrap itself around all of it at once. If you're in a lot of discomfort right at this moment, the races have a trajectory. You'll have up periods and down periods and up periods and down periods. And when you're on the downslope, your mind just projects it to go down forever. And you think, oh, I can't go that low. But if you just stay in the moment in a while, you'll find yourself in a better place.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now they have plenty to occupy their mind probably if you just took all their electronics away and sent them on an average day it'd be a struggle. It would be a struggle for me without my email to check. What am I going to do?”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it does have an effect, even if it doesn't tell you where you are. In today's world, being totally separate from your electronics is in 1986 it wasn't that big of a deal because you weren't constantly. in contact but now people are they're wired all the time”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that we're greatly aided by being kind of grandfathered in. I know I look when people try to set up similar events, say in Europe. They make them put a tracker on everybody because the government wants to protect you from yourself. But we've always done it and they'll say, well, the tracker wouldn't make a difference because it doesn't tell the runner where they are, but it tells the runner someone knows where they are. And when they get out there to make these decisions on how to approach different things, they have to bear in mind there's no tracker on them. Nobody knows where they are. If they do something really stupid, they're going to end up being somewhere that they have to wait till someone finds them.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So yes, they have to be physically in the best condition of their lives. The training takes people right to the edge of injury just training for it. And then you have to be able to push your body to its maximum extent without something breaking down”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's the cumulative climb, the race is 100 miles and the time limit is extremely slow by 100 milers for people who run distance. They're thinking 100 miles in 24 hours is hard. This one gives you 60 hours. So they perceive it as being a extremely extended low-level effort, but because that the pitch is so extreme, it's actually a really slow time which requires you to have all of your gauges we like to say on the red line. you're pushing it as close as you can get to blowing your motor.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not very good because you're making too much noise. You'll probably be around a bear, but they'll hear you long before you get close.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's pretty rocky, but there's a lot of undergrowth. It's not as rocky as the western mountains, which are newer and don't have as much soil and undergrowth on them. Plus they extend higher into the atmosphere.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is their little puny mountains by Western standard, the highest peak is three thousand three hundred eighty feet. It's only about two thousand feet from the bottom of the mountains to the top. You just do that distance repeatedly and they're extremely steep. Because of the geology of the area.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a little more than that, and that would be from sea level. I don't know why that's an important distinction to me because it doesn't mean anything to most people. But from the base of Everest to the top is not 29,000 feet. That's how high the peak is from sea level.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just all of the fine skills of finding their way using the map, how to prepare the map, how to what to carry for nutrition. Of course, they have their clothing is improved as much as their lights have. You don't have to carry as bulky of clothing, but you have to carry a light enough pack that it doesn't destroy you to carry it up and down all those big hills, but you have to be able to cope with it being 80 degrees or to be 15 degrees.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Humans have a collective ability, I guess that's unique among animals that we can compare what we've learned and learn from each other. And the skill sets of the people that tried it first in 1986 were not comparable to today. And the equipment is a lot better. In 1986, state-of-the-art lighting was a carbide lamp because your old flashlights with the bulb. You'd have to carry ten pounds of batteries to get you through the night with good light, and now they have those little LED bulbs and it just takes a battery for the whole race.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David Horton, he's one of the great ultra runners. He's considerably older than fifty now, but he was through his career one of the better ultra runners in the country. And he just, he was. Good at all the skill sets and he kept trying and honing it down he had several near misses before he finally got it.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From their 30s up, we have the after race, a race for the ages. We'll have 35 or 40 runners in the field every year that are over 70 with the oldest runners up into their 90s.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think being in any sport helps you develop those characteristics. I would recommend for kids that they play. Appropriate to their age with people their age. If they were a runner that they should run track and field and run on the school team or the club team. With other athletes that are the same age, the Ultra Marathons are more more a place where older people are involved”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I definitely had a big leg up on finding my way, but I actually did take a wrong turn once that cost me about four hours.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, I got my, I tell people, I got my hundred miles, but it took five years, which is not a bad time at the Berkeley.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was never more than a mediocre runner, so my goals were to do better than I had done before. I set lofty goals and didn't always achieve them. I actually thought at one point I could finish the Barclay.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's different people would do it for different reasons, but for the most part, they're really seeking the freedom that comes with being totally dependent on yourself. And then on top of that is the challenge of doing something that it's about a 1% finish rate. You have selected the best of the best and out of those only the 1% make it. And everybody would like to think that their 1% of the 1%.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have people from all over the world. I know we've had Ukrainians in the past. I'm not sure we've had one in the last couple of years.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have a one hundred percent self extraction including a couple of broken ankles, dislocated clavicle, a fractured kneecap. The people that do this are kind of a different breed that they're physically pretty tough and they get themselves out.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what they signed up for. They're on their own with all the electronics and all the things, the conveniences of modern life are gone and they just rely on themselves.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If they don't find their way out in a couple of days we'll go look for them, but usually they will so far they've always found their way out. Sometimes they wander around for an extended period of time lost, but that's the”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think these days navigation is a bigger problem than it used to be because people have become dependent upon GPS. And if you don't use part of your brain, it kind of withers. So if you're not accustomed to gnawing in your head where you are and just listening for a little voice to tell you when to turn next, It's something of a problem because they don't get to take GPS.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They have to carry it with em we put a couple of water drops out on the course so that they could restock but if it's below freezing that water might be frozen and they might have to find some in a stream somewhere or a spring.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or she have to be able to use a mapping compass. You don't have to be the world's greatest orienteering expert, but you have to be competent. You have to be able to find your way around in the woods. You have to be able to manage your own physical well-being because there's no aid station. So you have to pack and prepare for what you need to maintain your run. And then in addition, at Frozen Aid, you have a highly variable climate where that you could encounter. It could be 80 degrees and 15 degrees on the same loop.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“because the races that we have, the one like Berkeley is, it's a problem solving exercise. There are a lot of different variables that you have to be able to master in order to be able to complete it. And they like challenges.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it would be true in all of them. I think that the experiences people have improved them across the sphere of their lives.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess it probably tells you four times as much about yourself. It's not really an extension of the same thing. It's a whole day instead of just a morning.”
2023-09-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source