"SOFTROCK" DAY 1: THE HARDROCK 100 ULTRAMARATHON TRAIL FROM SHERMAN TO OURAY!

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[@RunningWildSandi]

Ready to do it again! 😍

[@Vo2maxProductions]

maybe next time I'll have a ligher pack 🤣!

[@danielhall2049]

Amazing content - absolutely love these 'soft' trail tours of iconic races!

[@Vo2maxProductions]

🙌

[@campingalan]

Hello Sage....from Ouray, Colorado!! What an awesome video!! It was fun to see you 3 traverse through our area!! Thank you so much for sharing it with us! PS. I'm a Jung Frau veteran too! Ha....I was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. I had just got back from the Kosovo war. On a wing and a prayer, I applied for a Jung Frau slot. I did zero training leading up to it; just ran around and did operations in a lot of heavy equipment hehehehe. So....my running career highlight....I was passed by a 70+ year old guy in a purple dinosaur costume hehehe. Yes...Bear Creek trail is one of my absolute favorites in Colorado too!!

[@grennangoeshiking]

That’s great coverage of an iconic course. Great vid Sage!

[@Ford363Stroker]

What a great view of the Hardrock course! Thank you from one of us mortals who will likely never get the chance to run it.

[@madmaf6011]

Thanks, that's brilliant Sage. What a great idea to run the route and film it. Looking forward to the next.

[@MedievalTrebuchet]

Love the 360 camera shots

Great content Sage! Happy to see the Hardrock route by daylight! Especially remote parts we usually don't see when following the race from abroad.

[@maltamaryfree]

I F ing love Colorado thank you for taking us along;-)

[@1greener]

Great video sage

[@jackG1207]

What a beautiful part of Colorado and a great video, thanks Sage!!

[@DrProfX]

“Kipchoge style!”😂👍

[@roustabout4fun]

Enjoy and have fun...while @ work!

[@cassieideran4881]

The San Juan’s are truly incredible! 🤩🤩 A “soft rock” is on my list of adventures to do…

[@runningforviews]

Such an amazing trail! Those views are insane!

[@KunalKumar1]

looks incredible! and wild!!

[@antoniocasablancasvilanova2207]

Excellent & inspiring!!!!

[@ratherrapid]

Special! Congrats!

[@philipcoomber1548]

FANTASTIC...great stuff you guys...looking forward to the other days...

[@nilesousa6720]

❤❤❤

[@elliegeorge1077]

Awesome! We were out there doing Softrock the same weekend, too bad we didn't run into y'all!

[@Vo2maxProductions]

you must have also been going counterclockwise?! hope you had a nice trip!

[@elliegeorge1077]

@@Vo2maxProductions yep!

[@tversetti]

You're both the mascots of the others' channel 😂

[@JohnBirtchetSharpe]

Great stuff, looking forward to today's post (day 2)

[@steveilg6134]

easy, Stephen! 😄 can't find day 3? its fun watching you and your posse gallop about in my backyard! thanks!

[@too2ez]

So entertaining, ty.

[@tiffanybrantley23]

Love these multi-day run videos!

[@mackenzieschumer9075]

Are the other days coming out soon?! I can’t wait to watch!!

[@CorvusVal]

Great stuff! Trails a bit gnarly towards the end.

[@Shevock]

Good friends. Good trails what more could somebody want?

[@Vo2maxProductions]

🙌

[@amybee234]

inspiring me to get to the stairmaster this arvo, the closest thing we have to mountain climbing in these parts! can't wait to be fit enough to even think about doing this one day :D

[@katis999]

nice trip, guys :)

[@Dora-bmrwarrior]

Beautiful! Great filming job. That section of trail with the vertical drop offs - that's part of the Hardrock course? I can't imagine super tired runners (w/super tired legs) trying to navigate that in the dark - pacer or no pacer. Seems too dangerous but what do I know lol. I couldn't do somthing like that without cable assist, for sure. Looking forward to the rest of the days!

[@djclass005]

Great video, hard rock course looks narly! Lots harder and wilder then UTMB!

[@Vo2maxProductions]

it is certainly more technical and high altitude (and remote). But I wouldn't say it is "harder than UTMB." At UTMB you just have to run faster because it's more smooth and much lower altitude.But yeah the amount of climbing and grades of the mountain trails are actually similar in some cases.

[@clarkfox6975]

I've run (and finished) both. The biggest differences are: ***altitude. The HR start/finish is 9300ish+, the highpoint is 14000ish+. Whereas the start/finish of UTMB is 3300ish+, with a highpoint of 8,400ish+. It made the UTMB climbs feel downright easy, at least from the O2 perspective. ***competition - obviously way more at UTMB. ***terrain - this one's harder to describe. While they're nearly equal in overall elevation gain, they flow very differently. Or alternately, you could say UTMB actually allows you to flow on smooth and easy to run terrain for long stretches, whereas at HR you feel like you're always going up/down rugged terrain. That said, HR has some smooth running stretches, and UTMB has some very rugged stretches. ***general atmosphere - HR indeed is wild and tough - you really feel alone and way off the beaten path for most of it. Whereas you're rarely alone at UTMB, due to the size of the field and the (awesome) spectators everywhere. Both are very unique and awesome in their own ways.

[@SydneyWilsonNZ]

Any safety tips regarding thunder/lightning? It’s not something I’ve experience much in New Zealand but hear a lot of people mentioning it in these vlogs! Love your videos btw Sage thanks for all your content :)

[@Vo2maxProductions]

I'm not very experienced with the weather details but there is a general rule of thumb here in Colorado that you want to be way off the summit of a 14,000' mountain by 12pm on any given summer day as usually the thunderstorms hit in the afternoon. I've seen them hit at 10am or 11am though! Of course when going on a big mountain pull like Hardrock it is inevitable that you are "going all day" and so it is very likely you'll be up over 12,000' on some exposed mountain pass during the afternoon. So we watch the clouds and listen for thunder rolls and time the difference between flashes and booms. One technique (I've heard) is to spread out from each other (not in a cluster of people), stay off exposed wet rock and bodies of water, and try to get low below treeline or so you're not sticking up or out. Then squat down in a tight ball, but still be standing on the balls/toes of your feet. That way you minimize ground contact area while, also "shortening your body".....so if you happen to get hit the damage is minimized...hopefully. I've known people that have gotten hit by lightening here in Colorado (they survived).

[@akiyoshi1995]

Easy Stephen

[@DrProfX]

Too many exposed and very steep areas for my taste! Wow! Good luck!🤞

[@kpark8k]

What shoes did you use for this? Do you find your outsoles get cut up quickly on the thick scree and rocks near the summits?

[@Vo2maxProductions]

I had multiple pairs! My go-tos (since I'm sponsored by HOKA) were the Torrent 3s and the Speedgoat 5 trail shoes. The Speedgoat 5s are quite a bit more durable than the Torrents on rough mountain rock. But yes, some of those sharp rocks on the high mountains wear out the shoes a lot faster because they are so technical and we are putting in 100-miles on them in 4 days.

[@cpruns4501]

You could clearly tell Stephen wasn't very serious at the start:)

[@TheSeriousRunner]

there is nothing serious about this.

[@darren6110]

I dont think the fella you brought along is serious enough...

[@desmondsigamoney1438]

You guys summit 14000 feet mountains and return in a day. And do it running. How do you prevent altitude sickness. I've summited Kilimanjaro (19340 feet) twice and it takes a couple of days to go up. On both occasions I've seen people hit by altitude sickness by walking too fast. Felt giddy myself the first time

[@Vo2maxProductions]

that's great! I've never been over 14,500'. We're a bit used to the altitude though because we live at 7000' here in Colorado and do a lot of these 14,000' peaks all summer (as well as many, many runs over 10,000;). So that helps....as well as general fitness, trying to eat and drink more,e and pace yourself evenly etc. It is quite common to feel kinda bad though when you spend such a long time up that high.

[@ricodelavega4511]

nice run, glad you showed steven a good time. I wonder about guys who are always being sarcastic, like steven is on his channel. Too much tends to mask bitterness. It would be sad to see steven turn into "old bitter running guy".

[@TheSeriousRunner]

but what else do people do but be bitter and post on Lets Run when they get older??

[@Vo2maxProductions]

@@TheSeriousRunner I mean I was posting on LetsRun when I was like 18 🤣

[@cypriano8763]

,why such big packs for a 45k run?

[@Vo2maxProductions]

Stephen and Sandi had pretty standard size ultra marathon running packs (like what one would race UTMB in etc). I had a "biggger pack" because I had a drone, a long lens camera, a GoPro and another camera (as well as a Garmin Tracker, extra batteries and a med kit). You're out in some pretty remote areas of Colorado at elevations of 8,000 to 14,000' so it also is worth having plenty of calories (all your calories for the day as there are no "huts") and full rain gear as well as hat/gloves/warm clothes etc. Also fluid capacity helps although we also had water filters. It's "only a 45km" run but you're literally going up and down mountains so this almost took 9 hours actually. Oh yeah, trekking poles and a way to carry them is also 🔑.

[@Vo2maxProductions]

I will aslo add on this day Stephen also had a long lens sony camera (105mm lens)...carrying that and running that far on technical trails (while worrying about the rain and thunderstorms etc) at this high of an altidue for 46km with climbing is actually quite a bit of extra effort (not to mention the time we took to film etc). Yeah, if I was racing Hardrock with Aid Stations and crew support I would have a much, much smaller pack on!

[@cypriano8763]

@@Vo2maxProductions I guess that was my question, what is in your pack for an ultra race minus the camera gear? Just getting into trail running from cycling. There are so many incredible trails I'm my back yard, golden bc, that it seams like the ultimate way to explore them