Yeah it’s easy to ‘undersell’ a challenge isn’t it! I remember my second marathon I thought I would just roll out and trot around - after allDr Zaius wrote: ↑December 2, 2019, 10:05 pmYeah doing the 100. Did kokoda this year, 96km and the same elevation. Did that pretty easily, but as a group event we were running at the groups pace and I wasn't pushing myself. I signed up for the Coastal High 50km in Sept but it was burnt out. The organisers gave people the option of earning their medal through a 50km virtual race {run your own course, log it on Strava). 40km into a solo 50km trail run and I was questioning my sanity. I've gone from pfft, it's just another kokoda, to **** am I thinking.Coastalraider wrote:Are you in for the 100 Doc? I’m working on Potentially doing the 50. Want to do my first Ultra next year as I’m not doing Ironman.Dr Zaius wrote: ↑December 2, 2019, 7:20 pmNot doing anything specific at the moment mate, just maintaining my current level of fitness which is reasonable with the plan to step it up in the new year. At the moment aiming to go the gym twice a week for some weights, bootcamp three times a week, parkrun for some short distance speed work {and intervals afterwards if not too hot} and a 20-30km trail on Sunday.EJ wrote:How is your UTA training going Doc?Dr Zaius wrote:Yeah I'm not a fan of ocean swimming cause of those shadows.
I've still got eyes on it but am not even on the waitlist yet. Should prob make a decision by end of the year
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‘I had just done and Ironman’.... at about 20k I remember this crap is still bloody hard! There’s always a moment of realisation for me, when it goes from the theoretical to the real and it hits home - I remember going to the finish line on the Saturday of Ironman this year, and it triggered some memory form the year before - and it was like a light switch turned on and I suddenly remembered How deep you have to dig to finish race day. It’s quite sobering