I'm just on the edge of being ready for the Afton 50K on Saturday. I hope I'm more ready than not ready. I ran the 25K loop out there a few weeks ago with some friends. The lure of Afton was too much for one of the guys to resist so he signed up for the 25K. One of the other guys may sign up too. Looks like there will be a great turnout with 300+ registered for both races at this time.
I'm still staying with my plan to run the 50K. I don't care what my time is. I'll have a really successful race if the hills are the only places I walk.
The rest of the week I'm doing some heavy duty tapering.
--Mark
Showing posts with label trail run. Show all posts
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Nice Saturday run at Afton
I ran at Afton this morning with an acquaintance from my health club and a friend of his. We ran the loop which is the Afton 25K trail race. I highly recommend running in Afton a few times before running the July 25K or 50K... unless you like surprises (Hills). I trained out there a few times last year as well as running the 25K race so I knew what I was in for.
We ran fairly hard, for me, and about the 9.7 mile point I had to drop back and run easier. I took the last 5.8 miles really easy and probably finished 20 minutes after the others.
It was nice to be out in nature today. I didn't see any deer but heard turkeys and possibly pheasants, and saw numerous beautiful flowers.
I also practiced a different nutrition plan using Hammer Nutrition's Sustained Energy (SE) product. Three hours before our run was to start, I had 3 scoops of SE in 12 oz water. Then I drank about 30 oz water over the next three hours. During the run, I carried 2 - 10.5 oz water bottles on a belt and a 22 oz hand-held bottle. I used 2 scoops of SE in the 22 oz, and one scoop each in the small bottles. I drank the mixture at an even rate over the run but did have a few drinks of water at our water stops. At least today, I had NO intestinal problems and I felt like my energy level was even the entire run apart from the fact I was running with two guys that have a faster natural pace than mine. I'll be trying the SE again on Friday's 20+ mile long run.
--Mark
We ran fairly hard, for me, and about the 9.7 mile point I had to drop back and run easier. I took the last 5.8 miles really easy and probably finished 20 minutes after the others.
It was nice to be out in nature today. I didn't see any deer but heard turkeys and possibly pheasants, and saw numerous beautiful flowers.
I also practiced a different nutrition plan using Hammer Nutrition's Sustained Energy (SE) product. Three hours before our run was to start, I had 3 scoops of SE in 12 oz water. Then I drank about 30 oz water over the next three hours. During the run, I carried 2 - 10.5 oz water bottles on a belt and a 22 oz hand-held bottle. I used 2 scoops of SE in the 22 oz, and one scoop each in the small bottles. I drank the mixture at an even rate over the run but did have a few drinks of water at our water stops. At least today, I had NO intestinal problems and I felt like my energy level was even the entire run apart from the fact I was running with two guys that have a faster natural pace than mine. I'll be trying the SE again on Friday's 20+ mile long run.
--Mark
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