Breck Crest Mountain Marathon, Breckenridge, CO (Read 908 times)

Never run it but I've hiked to the top of Breck with my skis on my back. Damn it was high. Some thin air up there, but the view is pretty spectacular. Good luck!

Hope everything goes well! I still cannot fathom marathons, much yet TRAIL marathons. Best of luck! k

Woah. Good luck! Looks like quite the challenge, which will be very rewarding once done!

OK, Finished the Race... but barely. For some reason my body and mind were not up to the task that day. At the 2nd Aid station I grabbed some carbonated energy drink instead of Gatorade witch immediately made me vomit. That caused me to be dehydrated and short of any energy for the next 2 hours. I could not even keep any water down. Finally my stomach settled and I was able to get some gel packs and water down which allowed me to finish the race. Whoever decided that a 2 mile climb at mile 20 was a good idea needs to be shot. I was so tired by then that just looking at the climb was demoralizing. I struggled my way through it and crossed the finish line 24.8 Miles and 5500Ft of elevation gain later in 6h 10m. MUCH slower than I wanted, but at least I finished... I actually was considering bailing at one of the aid stations for awhile. My training partner ended up getting first in the 20-29 age group with a 5:06, and I think if I had not been feeling so bad I could have pulled off a podium finish as well (3rd was 5:40 somthing). but oh well, there is always next year... The trails were absolutely beautiful, very technical single track and spectacular views for most of the run, I wish I was feeling better and I would have appreciated it better. Next challenge... 50k in February. Gotta keep running!

Yea, I know. Our training this year got a little messed up. The Marathon we had planned on was canceled and I didn't really commit to doing this one until about 2 Weeks before. We didn't want to put too many miles in the week before and recovery from the last race cut our mileage as well. Many of my long training (18-22 Miles) runs got skipped due to the fact that I didn't think I was doing a marathon this year and just wanted to keep a base over the winter and start pushing again in the spring. Also I didn't start logging here until after we had heard the race was canceled. We try to average at least 8-10 miles for all of our runs these days, but motivation and timing have been issues. we will be getting back on it soon.

Great job on relatively little training!