Suffercraft
First-person view running down a dusty desert singletrack in the heat.
Suffercraft · brought to you by The Roanes

The body quits first.
We train what happens next.

Suffercraft is a channel and a community about the mental side of ultrarunning. The struggles that decide training and racing and how to overcome them, interviews with the people who did not drop, group runs in the Treasure Valley, and the method underneath it.

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Western States · Javelina · San Diego 100 · IMTUF · the hot hundreds
The channel

What we publish.

Most running content covers the miles. We cover the part that actually decides the race: what happens in your head in the heat and the dark, when the body is spent and the only thing left to train is the mind, and what to do about it.

01

The struggles, named

The 3am low. The quit negotiation at an aid station. The stomach that turns at mile sixty. The doubt in week nine of a training block. Each episode takes one struggle every ultrarunner meets, names it, and shows you how to move through it.

02

Interviews

Long talks with the people who did not drop. Not the finish-line glow. The exact moment it fell apart, the decision they made, and what they told themselves to keep moving.

03

The method

The Five Disciplines, broken down one at a time. Threat modeling, tempo discipline, signal discrimination, decision pre-commitment, after-action review. The mental craft, made teachable.

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A runner deep in a hot desert race, salt-crusted and squinting into the sun.
The whole point

Pain is data.
Suffering is a tool.
Neither is the enemy.

The physiology is the easy half. The hard half is operating a depleted body and a loud mind over twenty, thirty, forty hours in heat and dust and dark. That is the cognitive tradecraft of going long, and it is the thing every Suffercraft episode, interview, and run circles back to.

Group runs · Treasure Valley

We run together. Boise, Meridian, Eagle.

The channel is the broadcast. The group runs are the real thing: actual people on actual trails in the Treasure Valley foothills at dawn. No club fee, no sign-up, and no pace groups. We start as one, spread out on the climbs, and wait at the turns so nobody trains alone. Ultra fitness is time on your feet, not how fast you run a training run.

A small pack of trail runners climbing a sage foothill trail at dawn.
Ricky Roane running a dry single-track trail through golden grass during an ultramarathon.
Who is behind it

Ricky Roane

UESCA Certified Ultramarathon Coach

Thirty-seven ultras finished, ten of them a hundred miles or more, two course records that still stand. The channel and the runs come from the same place the coaching does: a record earned in the heat, not a theory.

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Built for the dark hours.

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