OK, I just did a little google search on 100 mile races and seriously, it's totally ridiculous. You would think these people were saving babies from burning buildings.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Hello,
My name is Mark Donaldson. I'm a regular guy, and yet, I ran 100 miles.
This blog is about my "training", and possibly some other stuff. The reason for the quotation marks around the word training should become clear soon enough.
Running far is a hard thing to do, but not that hard. It's no harder than any other hard thing, and a lot easier than some. I can think of plenty of things harder than running all day. Take getting cancer for example. That's pretty hard. Running 100 miles takes about a day. Having cancer takes considerably longer. Anybody that tries to make you think otherwise is most likely trying to pat themselves on the back, whether they're conscious of it or not. And by the way, I use the term "running" loosely. There's plenty of walking that goes on in ultramarathons. Maybe think of them more as "foot races".
So here's my race schedule for the next couple of months:
Run the SF One Day race (the 12 hour version). I've had a tendency to ALWAYS run the farthest distance offered in a race. There are often more than one distance being run. But I'm trying to be a smidgeon smart about it, for a change of pace. I'm in not shape to run all day at the moment. But that's where my wicked training schedule comes into play. Here it is:
Three weeks out from the race, run 8 hours. Each week prior to that, run one hour less. So backing into that, I had a 3 hour run scheduled for last Saturday. Yeah, well that didn't work out too well. I honestly can't really even remember why at the moment. I think I just put it off too long and then ran out of time so ended up running an hour or so. OK, no worries. 4 hours this weekend and I'm totally back on schedule.
I'll let you know how it goes.
My name is Mark Donaldson. I'm a regular guy, and yet, I ran 100 miles.
This blog is about my "training", and possibly some other stuff. The reason for the quotation marks around the word training should become clear soon enough.
Running far is a hard thing to do, but not that hard. It's no harder than any other hard thing, and a lot easier than some. I can think of plenty of things harder than running all day. Take getting cancer for example. That's pretty hard. Running 100 miles takes about a day. Having cancer takes considerably longer. Anybody that tries to make you think otherwise is most likely trying to pat themselves on the back, whether they're conscious of it or not. And by the way, I use the term "running" loosely. There's plenty of walking that goes on in ultramarathons. Maybe think of them more as "foot races".
So here's my race schedule for the next couple of months:
Run the SF One Day race (the 12 hour version). I've had a tendency to ALWAYS run the farthest distance offered in a race. There are often more than one distance being run. But I'm trying to be a smidgeon smart about it, for a change of pace. I'm in not shape to run all day at the moment. But that's where my wicked training schedule comes into play. Here it is:
Three weeks out from the race, run 8 hours. Each week prior to that, run one hour less. So backing into that, I had a 3 hour run scheduled for last Saturday. Yeah, well that didn't work out too well. I honestly can't really even remember why at the moment. I think I just put it off too long and then ran out of time so ended up running an hour or so. OK, no worries. 4 hours this weekend and I'm totally back on schedule.
I'll let you know how it goes.
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