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Comments: The plan was to try and maintain 11 min/mile pace, with a slow jog at the end of each mile.After the first few miles I met up with a friend that I missed at the start and we ended up running together. Having someone to talk with made the miles go a lot faster. I was a little worried a few times when I checked my watch to see we were running under 10 min pace. But was feeling ok so I just went with it. It was just so great having someone to run with I just wanted to keep it up till at least after 30 miles. I had my water pack filled with ice tea and pockets filled with fig newtons, but they work for me so I tried to make sure I was eating. 20 - 30 mph winds out the the NW, good thing we were heading south. A few times we headed west into the wind but it could have been worse. As we got closer to 20 miles I started looking forward to the 28 mile mark were they would have soup and sandwiches. Passed through the half way mark in around 4:20, so I felt good about the fact that I had banked an hour for my goal of making it under 10 hours. At 28 miles had some food and changed out of the Hokas, hated to do it but I was getting a blister. After a little longer stop it was very hard to get moving again. The change of shoes felt a little tight, thought I would wait till the next exchange to loosen them up. They started to feel better until the blister popped. Stopped at one the aid stations and they put a bandaid on it. After 30 miles I felt like my pace was slowing a little and let my running partner go ahead, I didn't want to slow him. Now I was focused on the 40 mile mark. If I could hold on I had plenty of time to get in by 10 hrs. The next couple stations I was in and out before my firend and started to get a little ahead of him. Legs were hurting a lot so I took a couple more asprin, not sure how much they would help It was nice having the relay going on, it help put more people out on the course so I wouldn't have to run alone. Our race numbers had Solo on them so they would cheer us on. After the 30 mile mark I started taking my 1 min walk at the end of each mile. My watch mile markers were about 1/2 mile off from the course mile markers so I took my breaks with the course markers which made it a little harder to know what my pace was. After I hit mile 40 I couldn't believe how good I was feeling, even though my legs hurt a lot I was still keeping a pace under 11 min. At this point I started counting down to mile 45, 10 miles was still too big of a number. At 45 I felt like I could pick the pace up. I couldn't believe after 45 miles I was able to run 10 min miles. The final mile was around 9 min pace. Couldn't believe I was coming in under 11 min pace. It was so great finishing my first 50 mile run. What would you do differently?: I don't think I could have had a better race. It would have been nice if I could have refilled my pack with more tea instead of the water and gatorade. Post race
Warm down: After i finiished I waited for my friend to come in, he was only 9 minutes back. It was so cool having runners from the teams come to me after the race and tell me how great I did. One team said I looked really good out there. They saw younger (does that mean I am old?) runners out there that looked like they were dead. Maybe this distance is a better fit for me than the marathon. Last updated: 2013-06-18 12:00 AM
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The Fall 50
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Had to take the bus up to Gills rock
By the time we got up there didn't have a lot of time. Just enough to put some extra gear in a bag for the half way exchange.