The game theory/ultra running connection: Lisa Donchak at TEDxSacramento

Running is a mental game. How do ultramarathoners motivate themselves to run 20, 50, or 100- mile races? It turns out that running is as much a mental game as a physical game.
Lisa Donchak is a Business Strategist for Google: Google Apps. She's an accomplished ultramarathoner, having completed over 20 marathons and ultramarathons, including four 50-mile races and a 100-mile race, as well as the 2012 Boston Marathon by the time she was 24. Earlier this year, she competed in the first annual Inca Trail Marathon, a 26.2-mile race at 13,000 feet of altitude, ending in Machu Picchu.
Lisa graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Santa Cruz. During her undergraduate career, she studied behavioral economics at Oxford University and helped spearhead the first undergraduate program in game theory at UCSC. She currently lives in San Francisco, California and aspires to run a marathon on every continent.

[@LanceWinslow]

I love running at night in the dark in the trees on narrow trails, it's awesome, totally free, and fun.

[@pursueyourdreams3694]

Lisa, thanks for sharing your Hundred Mile Run, with us, we needed it

[@nocturnus009]

Great talk. Thanks for sharing. I hope this leads to a 20 min TEDtalk somewhere down the line & after a few more 100 mile races.

[@shadowwalker23901]

I agree, hope this leads to a TEDTalk. Hopefully a little more content into how game theory actually played role rather then incidental.

[@jirknet]

Okay so I this really has nothing to do with game theory at all ... this is just the story of someone who runs 100 miles (which for all of you who don't know is very much like the story of every other person who runs 100 miles).

[@enduraman1]

Why would dry sock cause blisters?

[@DaxRoss]

Good stuff.

[@bunty752007]

where is the game theory here.....

[@hhhgggfjh]

Game Theory?

[@TheBaldeagle7]

This lady and everyone should learn chirunning to stop suffering

[@JohnVKaravitis]

When is this hippie going to get to the game theory part of her chit chat?

[@Oneandonlyamirali]

John Karavitis I suppose she never really did. Sigh

[@crojan1]

"this hippie"? Feel better for that?

[@roustabout4fun]

Go Figure...nice jeans (sp?)

[@darren882211]

3rd :)

[@Crazyguy2415]

Second :)

[@aletedini]

first :)