RUN 5:07 and 24 miles in LV/KT/L&C, upper 12 min/mile pace
Finally I got to run with TH, it's been weeks. Of all the people to do a long run with, she's top of my list. Pace, conversation, and just the right amount of "mom" --as she calls it. :)
The day started off cold and warmed up, but the wind never died down unless we were in a valley or under the trees. The windbreak layer came off fast, the double gloves unnecessary. In other words, perfect day for a trail run.
Started at the Mound (same as the SHITR) and went south to the KT, then up the KT to where it connected with L&C. I didn't know you could connect them! We had a sort of "exploring" plan, sorta mapped out but not really. The conversations went from kitchen color to religion to LOTR to P90X and everywhere. My editing started to fail in the last 2 miles and I brought up my frog legs in the freezer. :( Now I'm not even sure I can eat them! I knew she was a frog fan, I didn't think of that when I bought them, but I remembered after, and duh I had to ask "ever eat frog legs?".
A super cool moment in the run was around mile 17 when we went by a runner wearing a Glacial Trail sweatshirt!!! He said it was maybe 20 years old! TH asked for any 50M advice, he said "it's a long day". Oof.
Today's pace seemed to have a lot of walking, but I'm thinking we need to walk even more. We walked up the hills and even down some, but kept a pretty steady pace overall. I'm not sure where to put the walking yet, but I think more is needed at this stage. I dunno.
My hydration was most off of the camelbak. My nutrition for the 5hrs was a "chocolate turd" (square of chocolate, 2-3T of coconut manna, 0.5c coconut flakes, and 2T almond butter), Lara bar (only ate half during the run, other half at the end), and plantain chips. I should add that up to see where I am...this whole30 no-counting might be messing me up?...70+250+140+190+210+150=~1000 calories over 5hrs, or 200 calories/hour. Huh, that's not far off at all...my usual is 200-250 per 45-ish minutes. The change is in the carbs, I'm not doing gels with caffeine and powerbars, maybe that's leading to the zombie brain?
My energy level is good, my footing OK, no stumbly/trippy, but my will to keep going starts to wane. This happened last week too. By the end I just lost interest. Both runs ended with me in zombie-brain mode--losing track of time, clumsy, slow reactions, probably shouldn't be driving home type of mentality.
I'm going to guess it's the fatigue and low carbs. Fat adapted metabolism or not, I have to try it.
By the end of the 22 miles back to the Mound, I was whipped but still wanted the 2 more as per plan. Me and my plans. So we looped out around the Mound for one mile, the repeated in reverse. The gravel was wearing on my will too. The last mile was hard. The worst part is that it's not even half way! 5hrs and 24 miles means the 8-10 hour estimate I had is WAY OFF. Thinking more like 11-13, which I'm OK with, but I'm not planning for that race. So I need to start planning that way.
Saturday afternoon I was able to move, kept upright, and the only thing hurting was the bottoms of my feet. In particular the lateral part of my right foot near the pinkie toe. Just felt sore. I'm working on trail shoe research, and need to move that higher on the list to get settled into new shoes.
So...I need to work on nutrition, shoes, and conversation topix.
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