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Yeah we'll see ourselves out haha

 

It always throws me when I see Americans talking distances in kilometres when it comes to running!

 

I love the idea of the Barkley’s marathon but to be honest I would absolutely fucking hate to try and be in it lol. From how secretive it is and all the oddities that make it unique to the actual brutality of the course, I just would not like dealing with all that lol

 

yeah I don’t understand it. With the commonality of the 5k and then “doing a 50k” I just don’t question it and roll with it. I absolutely don’t compute pace in K at all, but overall distinct I can correlate k’s relative to miles some what easily.

I’m with you. Knowing what I know of the race, seeing the terrain first hand, and listening to some recent podcasts with John Kelly talking about it and navigating out there….. yeah no way. I’d like to try the Barkley Fall Classic at least within the next several years though. Being out there on the actual trails, looking off trail and UPPPP the mountains from where I was…… it’s just insane going up or even down.

 

I train in miles and then get really confused when trying to convert km to miles when I see new race distances outside of the standard 5/10ks.

 

I’ll leave the ultras to @Supernova. My feeling after my marathon was definitely not that I needed to run more. I did hit an 85-mile week this past week, though! I’m just under eight weeks to my next marathon at the moment, so getting up there in mileage. Planning to get a couple 100-mile weeks in at peak this time around.

 

What kind of runs are you doing to hit 100 miles?!

Looking back to my last full and I topped out at about 50 miles over an 8 day span.

 

I think I topped out at 32 in a week, lol.

 

Last week was:

Monday: 10 easy
Tuesday: 13.2 total (50 minutes at pace, plus WU and CD)
Wednesday: 10 easy
Thursday: 10.5 total (speed repeats)
Friday: 12 easy
Saturday: 9.3 easy
Sunday: 20 at 6:30 pace

So I’ll basically do longer versions of all of those in a few weeks to get to 100, plus maybe a double on one of the easy days.

 

Jesus Christ!

 

I hate/love that I know what "10 easy" feels like.

 

Marathon training warps my perception of "normal" exercise and fitness to such a degree that I feel like I didn't get enough of a run in unless it's at least 10 miles, haha. (Similarly, and resultingly, I feel like I need to eat at least four meals a day.)

 

Yeah. I can balance training for a half with weight training pretty easily. I don't know that I could do that with a full.

I really want to find another flat half before I commit to another full.

 

Might I suggest Traverse City? Legit one of the flattest, fastest courses in the country (in addition to being beautiful). We even make Boston's top 10 list of qualifying races.

There is one uphill right at the start of the half, but then an equally big downhill, and then just flat and along the water the rest of the way.

 

For some reason, I thought it was going to be closer than an almost 12 hour drive from my house.

 

Haha, yeah, we aren’t really close to much. Definitely a flight.

 

Last year when I ran the Des Moines, IA marathon I thought it would be “easier” because it was so flat. Boy was I wrong. I fucking HATE flat runs lol. My quads were shot after 26 miles and a whole 200 feet of elevation. Give me at least some variety lol. I know a lot of people love flat runs and seek those out but goddamn that that was the worst of the 4 fulls I’ve done ironically enough

 

I don’t know what I did to my calf but this is easily in the top 10 list of physical pains I’ve experienced. I can’t even concentrate on anything and no movement or position makes it feel better or even relieves the pain for a moment. Looked to make sure it wasn’t a bug bite or something and visually it all looks normal and definitely feels like it’s radiating out so I assume I severely bruised or tore a muscle but didn’t feel anything until I woke up this morning so holding out hope it’s just a weird, bad cramp from sleeping but I’ve been up for 7-8 hours now and no change in feeling/pressure.

 

In the thick of my training for my half/full double event in July. Knocked out 9 miles yesterday and 18 this morning both essentially at 8min/mile.

Last weekends long run was a punish and knocked my confidence a bit but I crushed it today and am feeling good again!

 

I’ve got a half next weekend and a full in three weeks, and I’m currently in the second of two 100-mile training weeks. Been an awesome training block, but man, I am ready for the taper.

 

Dude I’ve done 60 miles in the last 9 days. I really don’t know how you do these 100 mile weeks! Epic effort mate.

 

I’ve only got 3 weeks of back-to-back training runs with an easy week in 2 weeks where I’m doing a half and then it’s taper szn.

 

Last week, the day-by-day rundown, in terms of mileage, was 13-15-12-15-13-12-21, with two of those being workout days and the long run incorporating a 10-mile time trial/race with some friends who are also training for the same marathon. Weirdly, I think the legs just locked into what I was doing and were more or less willing to do all of it, haha

 

Haha I know that feeling. Very impressive mate!

 

Thanks! Up early for a 22-miler today. Last really long one until race day.