When our family ski's I ski a lot with my 12 YO daugher Erin. I have always been a jumper. I rarely have seen a jump that I do not like. Where we have season passes they also have terrain parks - All sorts of rails and slider boxes. I am very comfortable in the air flying, but have never used the terrain park features.
Last Saturday I decided it was time to use the slider boxes. Erin hated it as I was often off balance. Then I went off one that was pretty high off the ground ~ maybe 4-5 feet at the end of the 20 foot box. I ended up off balance and pushed off the end of the box akwardly to not crash on the box. Landed on a mound of snow/ice on the small of my back. It is black and then below the black it is numb.
Erin was yelling at me that she told me not to go off and was starting to lecture until I looked up at her like a beaten dog asking for a moment to see if I was hurt or injured.
I think I am just hurt, but could not run until last night.
I did 12 painful and slow miles (9:00 pace) every time I did not havemy back perfectly straight it was like an ice pick in my lumbar / high glute area.
So I figure I should be good to go for Clinton Lakes 30 this Saturday.
Anyone else? I will be really slow ~ 5+ hours ... maybe 5:30+
Long dead ... But my stench lingers !
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I managed the 30 mile trail race - Really painful on the quads, but the back pain was manageable.
Now that the bruising pain is letting up, I have 2 hot spots. One that could be a tailbone problem and the other could either be a fractured vertabrae or disk issue.
I did find out that being fat and undertrained makes for a painful day after a 30 mile trail race. There were 3x 10 mile laps.
Lap #1 = 1:38
Lap # 2 = 1:44 (plus 2 minutes messing around in car to change etc)
Lap #3 = 1:41 (Plus 1 minute messing around in car)
Running 5:13 + 3 minutes dicking around in car using it as a drop bag / aide station = 5:16
Probably 1 hour slower than I should run it if I was in shape, but I did not leave much on the course. I would have to say it was almost the best I could do being fat and out of shape. I was red-lining the whole last lap. The course was frozen the 1st lap. the 2nd is was a little muddy on mostly uphills, by the 3rd lap is was very squishy - slippy mud on the a lot of the uphills ~ I had to grab a few trees just to make it up.
Nice race - Nice day - Good to hang out with Andy, Chad and the LPT runners for beer post race.
I am calling this my last ultra - Time to retire ... maybe for every, maybe like Bret Favre?
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Blah, blah, blah.
I decided we are doing the 48 hour at ATY. Start training.
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Blah, blah, blah. I decided we are doing the 48 hour at ATY. Start training. Your response cannot be longer than one sentence.
All you people talking about ATY have me intrigued, and I might have to check that out.
BTW That comma would have been a period except for WG's "one sentence" rule.
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Me too. Except that Saturday's 12-hour was not very long ago, and I still remember quite clearly thinking that a person would have to be insane to run a 24-hour. Let alone 48.
Sign up for the 72 hour, so as to avoid feeling the need to run every step...and, just BTW, that 12 hour will pay off in spades a few months from now.
See, the problem is the sky's the limit with these types of events. Where does one draw the line? For me, I think it's likely at 100 miles, or for timed races, 24 hours. I did run every step of that 12-hour, but I can't see doing that for 24 anyway -- there would have to be some walking at the least. Right?? Unless I am DoppleBock, or Jurek, or Kouros, which I'm not.
I just saw that ATY offers a 6 day for this year! There's going to be some serious walking-dead in the PHX on Jan 1.
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Theres a 3100 miler held in the Bronx each year...longest footrace in existance. Cutoff is at 52 days (this makes Dean Karnaze and his 50 marathons in 50 days look like a slacker).
This is relatively local to me so I'm going to check it out this year.
http://www.3100.ws/
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That will be good training for when you come to 3 Days at the Fair in 2014 to kick some ass.
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Theres a 3100 miler held in the Bronx each year...longest footrace in existance. Cutoff is at 52 days (this makes Dean Karnaze and his 50 marathons in 50 days look like a slacker). This is relatively local to me so I'm going to check it out this year. http://www.3100.ws/
I keep thinking of doing the 6 Day in April. It is right around my birthday every year so I would feel like I was giving myself a present. I have gone over to check it out and cheer on the runners. 1 mile loop over by the old World's Fair area.
Cool, I will look into the 6 dayer also...I could probably head over that way for "work".
See, the problem is the sky's the limit with these types of events. Where does one draw the line?
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I rest my case.
Fuck you!