Hi all,

Skim are you still planning a ss 100? curious how you prep/logistics

84.1M week plus maybe a walk tonight. got passed in the rat/bat/gnat thing by someone who saved her best for last! thought of a new goal. how about 3650 miles in a year? i have 1351 to go. 70M behind a 10M/day pace. i can do it depending on health but is there a point? should i ask this question?

getting more speed in some of my runs. i really think the dizzies are from wearing the mask while running (and maybe other factors). i put it on and feel dizzy, i take it off it goes away. this weekend was great and got some runs in on a private trail on an island! nobody there = no mask!!!

CT scan tomorrow unrelated to the dizzies. watched the meteor shower last 2 nights and really hoping for good news so that my running obsession may continue

Funky, good luck on the CT scan today!

Keen, sKim, hope your training issues were momentarily blips.

Weird weather here over the weekend. Hot, humid, with thunderstorms.  Not normal for us at all in the coast. Fortunately the fog rolled in last night. Love our natural AC.

Nothing much going on with me. 33 miles last week. Meh.

Pretty down summer, only 40 miles last week. I'm building a 10 x 12 x 8 garden shed, and it's turning out to be more time consuming than I thought. I get my runs in on the weekend, and then work on that until I'm tired and ready for a beer. Not using a nail gun which saves a lot of time, but I'm old school.

I'm slightly holding out hope that Wild Duluth will still occur, I'd do the 100k, but the way we are half-measuring our virus steps here it's not likely.

6 years since I did the Pikes Peak marathon Facebook tells me, it seems like a lot longer. Now that was a freaking hard race, but I'd do it again.

Skim are you still planning a ss 100? curious how you prep/logistics

 

 

Yes, probably the first weekend of October in Michigan on a flat trail.  My wife and her sister's family are eager(?) to run/bike with me a bit and also provide support.  My leg feels pretty normal now, so I'm ramping up the mileage again (though trying to remember to run some slower paces, so that the calf issue doesn't reappear).  In the next 7 weeks or so before the 100-mile attempt, I'm planning to do two 20-milers, two 30-milers and one 50-miler.  Again, as long as I don't try to run those long runs too fast, I think they'll be good preparation.  So as far as training, I don't think there's anything different than what I was planning for the Hennepin 100.

But for logistics, I haven't finalized them yet.  When I come up with a plan, I'll write in to get everyone's feedback/suggestions.  The nice thing about doing my own 100 miler is that I can start anytime I want (and choose any route I want), but that's also the bad thing since I can change my mind anytime I want, too.

 

The Flume Trail is notorious for having mountain bikers that think they own it. Also, the course had you going on the Flume trail "backwards", so you probably ran into a lot of bikes. Out of everywhere in this area I run, that's been the worst for trail etiquette. It also has the most out of towners.

 

Sounds about how I expected. I wish I could have been there.

 

-Kelly

The time of day I was on the Flume trail also did nothing to help keep it clear. Maybe if I’d been there around 10am less people would be there. It just made it easier to walk those miles and accept bad things as normal. Just the ‘I’ve been out here for like 5 hours and you can’t even stop to let me walk by?’ thought/attitude was persistent.

Finished the week with 79 miles and 10,780 ft vert.  Big fun week.  No speed work and lots of trail time. Climbed Kings peak 13,528 highest peak in Utah. 25 miles and 4,500 ft vert.

74 miles last week, with half of a LR. Bailed super-early on a workout this morning. I've been quite tired for a solid week or so due to too little sleep and what I had was low quality. As such, I'm taking a big cut-back in mileage this week to recuperate. Might run a road 5k on Saturday depending on how I feel by then.

looking at maybe a 120M week depending what happens today. maybe 116 a lot of it was a struggle with gut issues and poor absorption but also some breakout progressions and fartleky stuff. two days left in the RATBATCATGNAT thing. about 40M from Knoxville dont think ill make it there but currently in 161st place.

so much for my contrarian thoughts about zone 1 type training but adding some speed back in has brought the joy back and probably injuries to follow.

they waived the requirements for the inagural Cocodona 250 next year and my Cousin suggested i try it. i saw Seamax yesterday (he finished the GNAT!) getting his thoughts on the sleep monster. i think that for that price i should get better than a fist come first serve shared stinky tent. if i could figure out a way to get enough rest i think i could do 50M/day for 5 days but not with the sleep monster drag. i wouldn't make it 2 days!