Third Time’s a Charm This is my third consecutive April 100 miler where I’ve been gunning for a sub-24 hour finish. My first attempt resulted in a DNF and I walked in the last 30 miles of my second try. Both times I was pretty confident that I had it in the bag so I’m obviously…
Project 14Forty: Taper Time
The long runs are done. Long live the long runs! I’m not really sure if yesterday counts as a long run or not. I ran 10 miles followed immediately by 2 hours of hiking. All on roads or fire roads. While 10 miles is more of an intermediate run when you’re training for ultras, the…
Project 14Forty Update: 52 Mile Weekend
My peak weekend is now behind me. Bring on the taper! It’s a little hard to believe that it’s been 20 weeks since I started training for Umstead with the goal of finishing inside 24 hours (24×60=1,440). I’ve executed my training plan almost to the letter. The only major changes was adding in an extra…
Lessons Learned (or Relearned) from Naked Bavarian
I’ve been running ultras for three years now and I’ve managed to learn a couple things. Normally this would be a good thing, however I seem to keep forgetting those couple things which forces me to relearn them at inconvenient times. Like in the last 5-10 miles of races. Tune-up races can serve many important purposes…
2017 Naked Bavarian 40 Mile Race Report
I’m driving over to the race start Saturday morning watching the outside temperature drop from 20 degrees to 17 to 15 degrees. I was giving my wife who was running the 20 mile race the play-by-play, but I don’t think she was enjoying it too much. Needless to say, there wasn’t much socializing before the…