Notes
Ran a Fat Ass 50k today, affectionately dubbed "1 More Fat Ass for Sunshine". I was supposed to run 196 miles this week but wasn't able to due to injury concerns. I wanted to finish on a high note despite not running much this week so I ran the full 31 miles, and collectively we wanted to run at least the 196 miles which we made pretty easily. I haven't verified the math yet but I think the humans ran 229 miles and the dogs ran 29 miles so we made it pretty easily.
The loop was 8 miles long (with a 5 mile option) so I ran 3 full loops. For the last loop, I went out on the 5 mile loop but before taking the road home I continued off course for a mile out and a mile back so that I could get the full 7 miles in.
There was a good crowd of people for the first 8 mile loop, with 13 of us heading out on the trails with 2 dogs and 1 person and the baby staying back at the house. I finished the first loop in about 79 minutes.
The second loop saw 5 of us heading out for 8 miles, with 2 people taking the 5 mile option. No dogs ran with us on this loop, although Echo honked the horn at us as we were running away because she wanted to be let out of her car.
The break between the second and third loop was pretty long; probably around 35 minutes. We had a few people come at 11:00, so while waiting for all the newcomers to get set and ready to head out and the timing of everything it just took some time. I used the opportunity to eat some of the yummy food, of which I'll have more to say in a bit.
For loop 3 there were 6 of us and 1 dog running the 8 mile loop and 2 people running the 5 mile loop. My friend Jamie took a pretty good spill after breaking through some ice early into this loop, but he ran through it and hopefully it doesn't swell too much on him tonight.
For my last loop, I convinced Four and his cousin's dog Zephy to come out for the 5 mile loop so that I'd have somebody to run with for the first 4 miles at least. They had come in with the 11:00 crowd. This worked out pretty well because I only had to run alone for the last 3 miles on the day.
In between each loop at the end there was a great aid station. We provided home made apple leathers, beef jerky, bread and chicken soup, while other people brought butternut squash soup, corn chowder, mac & cheese, swedish fish, no bake cookies, Girdhelli chocolate brownies, M & M's, Oreos, biscuits, scotch, more chocolate cookies, some packaged something-or-others that I never ate any of and were gone by the time I was done so I didn't see what they were, banana bread, some sort of cake and at least a few other things that I'm sure I missed.
We went through most of what was there; we didn't have to try to convince people to take too much home with them.
I think that it was a pretty successful day. I know that I had fun, and everybody I spoke with said that they had fun. This is the first run of this kind where I've done the full 50k, so I didn't actually get to spend much time "off trail" with too many people as I ran for 4 hours longer than some people so almost everybody was gone by the time I finished.
Some final stats:
<ul><li>19 People Present</li>
<li>18 People Ran (the baby rolled around in the living room but didn't run)</li>
<li>4 Dogs Present</li>
<li>3 Dogs Ran (1 puppy just came over to play for a little while but isn't old enough for long runs yet)</li>
<li>The humans collectively ran 229 miles in 38 hours 37 minutes.</li>
<li>The dogs collectively ran 29 miles in 4 hours 53 minutes.</li>
<li>All together, we ran 258 miles in 43 hours 32 minutes for a pace of 10 minutes 8 seconds per mile.</li></ul>