What motivates you to train for ultras? How do you get out of bed before light when it’s raining outside? What forces you to do add that second (or third) workout to your weekly schedule? Or the extra repeat when your lungs are shot and your legs completely fried? The back-to-back long runs? How do…
How The Heck Did I Just Do That?
I’ve gotten pretty consistent at the hundred mile distance over the past couple years. I am now able to head into races with solid pacing plans and can execute a race without making too many mistakes. And those that I do make are modest and don’t materially impact my finishing times. This consistency has kept…
More Miles Last One Standing Race Report
More Miles is a backyard ultra located at Camp Monidokan in Knoxville, MD. If you’ve run C&O Canal 100, same place but different course. Instead of the towpath, you run a 4.16 miles loop around the camp every hour with the winner being the runner who completes the most number of loops (or yards) and…