Once upon a time, a long long time ago, February 4th more precisely, I ran the Charlotte Ultra 50K. 31 miles for the non-metrical. After that I haven't blogged. Someday I'll figure out how to do this regularly - or I'll figure out not to do it at all. So here is the run down best as I can remember.
It was a cold and dreary day. Rain was forecast and was not disappointing. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
It was a good day. The course was a total of five 6.2 out and backs. Never done the lap thing before but I ended up liking it immensely. Every 6 miles I was back with "my stuff," being cheered on by my family, and I knew after the first out and back what I was up against, and it was a nice course, imo. The rain was intermittent at first, steady for the middle 15, and then gone for the last 5. It got pretty muddy and slick in one section of the course, but you could dance around that section.
Most memorable moment for me was when I realized that I was thinking I only have two more laps to go - which meant I had just finished 18.6 miles and had 12.4 miles to go - but thinking about it in laps made it seem like much less.
I believe I ran the first 24.8 miles in @3:30 and then I tanked a little and it took me 1:15 to run the last 6.2. Other than that (and it was the first time I had ever ran farther than 26.2 miles) I thought it was an excellent run and that overall I performed better than I expected. I look forward to my next ultra.
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