Finish time: 23 hours, 45 minutes. Race report will be done later this week.
2017 Old Dominion Preview
The excitement is really starting to build for Saturday. I’ve been getting that nervous anticipation feeling since about 8 days out. I didn’t feel this heading into Umstead and thought it might be gone for good (been there and done that and all). I’m glad it’s back though as a lot of fond memories (i.e. standing in…
Numbers Lie
I just finished my last long run of this training cycle – 31 miles. I had been looking forward to and dreading it at the same time all week long. Up until now, I didn’t even know that was possible. After last week’s blisteringly fast pace, I was wondering how much time I could lop off…
Head Games
I think I’m pre-injured. Recovering from Umstead is starting to feel like I normally do during my tapers. I’m not injured, but my legs just don’t seem to feel right. Yes, I know. They call this recovery for a reason, but I got back to 95% or so within 4 or 5 days (i.e. really…
Old Dominion 100 Mile Training Plan
The timing of my three 100-milers this year (4/1, 6/3, 8/12) doesn’t really give me whole lot of time to train in between each one. Especially, since I’ll need a portion of that time to recover from the prior race. So I’ll need to be a little creative in my running over the next 8…
2017 Umstead 100 Mile Race Report
There are 3 different types of people who are going to read this post. The first are people who are thinking about signing up for this race. The second are those that have signed up and want to know more about it. The third group are those that are interested in how I did personally. …
Project 14Forty: Success!
Total time: 22:07:59 It’s going to take me quite a while to distill my thoughts into a race report so don’t expect it until late this week at the earliest. All I can say now is that it’s rare in life for something to meet your wildest dreams, but this race came extremely close.
2017 Umstead 100 Mile Preview
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…
100 Miler Wish List
You may find this surprising, but according to Run100s.com (my go-to reference for all things 100 miles) there are about 150 races in North America that are 100 miles in length. This is up about 50% from when I first started researching the distance 4 years ago. Heck, three of the races that I’ve done…
Something Always Goes Wrong
I’ve learned a couple things over the past 18 months of running 100 mile races, but nothing more important that the title of this post. Maybe it’s the small sample size (5 races). Or maybe it’s my inexperience (same 5 races). Or maybe it’s just that with 100 miles and upwards of 35 hours of “running”, there’s more opportunity…