Great job!  Nice time, that has to put you near the top.  If the rain was anything like it was down here, at times it was crazy.  Everywhere is flooded.  Yesterday was the first day since last winter I was on the treadmill, that is how bad it was.  Trails flooded all around today but at least the rain has stopped.

Thanks.  I was third overall, though I felt a little bad because around mile 19 I passed the guy who was in third at the time when he went into a port-a-pottie.  Yeah, the rain was torrential at times, but no flooding, and I didn't really mind because it kept things cool.  There were several big puddles that were about ankle deep, but still easily runnable.  It was funny because my florescent yellow shoes kept getting cleaner and cleaner, brighter and brighter, as they got washed in the rain/puddles, so that at the finish it looked like I'd run in brand new shoes.

skim1124, never feel bad for passing someone in the john.  Sometimes potty breaks work for you, sometimes (usually) they're against you.

 

Seattlemax has been running for 3 days, 6 hours, and 207.7 miles at Moab.  Go git that last 31!  Someone else that I know there got off course and did a bonus 12 miles, ugh.  He's still going to finish, I've no doubt.  Amazing what Courtney Dauwalter did.

Well, I didn't feel nearly bad enough to consider stopping, but you're certainly right that sometimes factors unrelated to training/fitness can slow you down.

I'm also sure that Seattlemax will finish.  As someone who's never going to attempt anything remotely like this, it's hard to relate to what he's doing, so what Dauwalter did (read somewhere that she only slept 21 minutes) is inconceivable (and yes, I do know what that word means ).

Runners World forums are shutting down.

 

There's a fairly active Ultra marathon forum there, and WCR suggested we might come here.  Figured I'd start a thread for us to use while we think about it...

FWIW... as a long-time local... don't feel like you need to restrict yourselves to a single thread. If that's what's comfortable for you, great, but normally we have separate threads for separate races, topics, etc. Unfortunately the forum has gradually become less and less active of late. Sorry about that, and glad to see lots of new blood.

Bhearn, we had a thread called "2017 ultra training thread" with a google sheet embedded that has everyone's upcoming races and past results for the year. that's where most of the ultra activity was. i think someone may start a 2018 one soon but im not sure how to embed a new sheet here. 

I don't know any way to embed a Google sheet here... I doubt it's possible, but I could be wrong. Of course you can always post a link.

 

I always thought the single thread for the whole year was a little awkward, though there didn't seem to be enough activity for a dailies thread. Maybe we could try a monthly so it wouldn't be so hard to look back to try to find a particular post.

that sounds good to me. we could post weeklies in the monthly and it would be easier to keep up with who's racing when. im on facebook now but talk about hard to find stuff. everything gets buried almost immediately and it's hard to navigate and annoying gifs all over the place.

I agree race reports, training questions, gear discussions, make sense as separate topic.  Day to day stuff could be monthly or weekly.

 

I think a separate thread for races, like what WCR did for the end of this year, would be good given this format. Are there even mods around to sticky threads? It seems like a few could be unstuck.

The group owner (creator) and any members designated by the owner as admins can sticky threads. I don't think Purdey (owner) or either of the two admins (fatozzig and Ultrachick) for this group have been active recently. Not sure what to do in this case.