13/8: 1:06
Local trails - All I could squeeze in after an epic weekend at the NDW50/100.
14/8: 1:48
Local trails - Fartlek effort. Working harder and felt surprisingly good given how stressful the weekend ended up being.
15/8: 1:12
Local trails - Very easy effort shaking out the last vestiges of fatigue in light of tomorrow and Fridays efforts.
16/8: 7:32
Local trails - This run came a week too late. Ideally I'd have been running the NDW50 rather than directing it! 3 x 14.3 mile loops with all the gear. Drew joined me for the second one which broke it up a little. Felt great until around 5 miles to go when my hamstring started to tighten up. Disappointed that it didn't come easier but given the past week of activity I'm not complaining and it was still a decent if fairly inconsequential effort given the level of the climbs and descents of UTMB.
17/8: 2:42
Local trails - Night time run. Legs felt great considering yesterdays longer effort, no sign of soreness, so sure now that the aching hamstrings were purely down to lack of salt. This type of run has become a favourite pre-100 work out of mine. Go out an hour after dinner, tired and in the dark after a longer training effort to simulate as best as possible, going through the night in race conditions. Changed headlamps a few times and am blown away by how good the Petzl Nao is.
18/8: 0:40
Local trails - Easy pace.
19/8: am 3:45, pm 0:32.
Local trails - morning was all hiking with all the gear working relatively easily. pm shake out run.
Total: 19hrs27
Disappointing final bigger week. The hours and mileage stacked up but the vertical certainly didn't. Clearing up from last weekends races means having to stay near to home so getting any meaningful climb or descent in is borderline impossible. Going in to a race relying on just a week of proper mtn training isn't ideal, but then again UTMB is such a suffer fest anyway it's all going to come down to the day. It's time to taper now with 12 days to go, enough time to get some deep rest and try to eat as well as possible.
Local trails - Night time run. Legs felt great considering yesterdays longer effort, no sign of soreness, so sure now that the aching hamstrings were purely down to lack of salt. This type of run has become a favourite pre-100 work out of mine. Go out an hour after dinner, tired and in the dark after a longer training effort to simulate as best as possible, going through the night in race conditions. Changed headlamps a few times and am blown away by how good the Petzl Nao is.
18/8: 0:40
Local trails - Easy pace.
19/8: am 3:45, pm 0:32.
Local trails - morning was all hiking with all the gear working relatively easily. pm shake out run.
Total: 19hrs27
Disappointing final bigger week. The hours and mileage stacked up but the vertical certainly didn't. Clearing up from last weekends races means having to stay near to home so getting any meaningful climb or descent in is borderline impossible. Going in to a race relying on just a week of proper mtn training isn't ideal, but then again UTMB is such a suffer fest anyway it's all going to come down to the day. It's time to taper now with 12 days to go, enough time to get some deep rest and try to eat as well as possible.
With your level of fitness and endurance James as well as ability to suck up pain like no other (read your badwater report not to long ago :-O) utmb is just a walk in the park! A vEry hilly park mind but a park all the same! Wishing you the very best with your latest endevour. Once chap who would I'm sure really appreciate your company and guidance out there is Dino Ilari. Do you recall who he is? He run TP100 (big chap) and is running UTMB for first time. Hook up with him in Facebook perhaps....
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