RUN 16 miles in 3 hrs
Some delay in getting started for this one. I had trouble getting to sleep last night, a normal aftereffect of a long run. I also stayed up to clean my muddy shoes in the hopeless hope that they'd be dry enough for a trail run today. Silly bee, they don't need to be dry to run in!
So even though I didn't sleep in much, I was still moving slow. And since I wasn't committed to where I was running, that became another excuse to delay. I guess in all honesty I wasn't that delayed, I was at the Mound trailhead by 9am.
I chose the Hamburg for the road shoe runability, that fact that it had some hills unlike Forest Park, and this might be the last time this year I'd be out here! My motivation so low this morning that I don't envision coming back for long runs after the 100 miler. But who am I kidding...I'll be back. I picked this too because I knew I didn't really want to do it, meaning it was harder than FP and the honest part of me knew that was the better option. Really, trails would be the best option...
16 miles. Ooof. I tried to comfort myself by thinking 'well it could be 20 like the plan says' but that didn't work so great. Yesterday morning I thought I could do 35 on Saturday, then only need 14 on Sunday. But after doing only (did I just say only?) 33 miles that means those extra 2 miles carried into today. Really, two miles, ain't all that much physically, it's all mental!
It's also all mental just how bad my math can be. First I'm thinking I just need to run out-n-back on Hamburg. It's 4 out...4 back...how does that add up to 16?! Umm it doesnt!! When I realize that, the true distance of 16 gets heavier.
I start with a loop around the Mound. I have jelly beans again but I decide I hate them and as I eat them I spit them out. Gone in the first mile. By mile two I was near the drop into Lost Valley and I turned off the Hamburg to take the short route. Knowing it had hills and gravel was a bit of a deterrent, but what I needed. My original plan for this last blow out weekend had me on trails the entire time. I had to keep reminding myself of that as I walked uphills.
And I walked, way more than I thought I wanted to but less than I needed too. I need to walk more and sooner. A hard lesson to learn, apparently.
I was saving a ginger chew for 8 miles, which seemed to never come. I hit 8 near Defiance on the Katy. My plan was to run from LV to Katy, then Katy far enough to reach 12 miles by the time I came back to Hamburg. But I couldn't muster the math to get more than an estimate. I came back to Hamburg at 11.5, burned out and tired and mostly walking.
I probably didn't eat enough -- only 2 gels and 6 miles apart. I wasn't hungry but my stomach was growling. I was thirsty and drinking a lot but never satisfied. So I 'let' myself walk. Probably all of a half mile! But it felt sooooo long. I know that walking now means running later, this was a comforting thought, still hard to do.
I got back to the Mound at 15 miles, more bad math, leaving me with only 1 more mile! 0.9 miles if I wanted to carry over from Tuesday's 5.1 miler! Around the Mound...and oooof it was hard. I was making the mistake of focusing on the number, not the finish. Instead of saying, I'm done at the finish line I was saying I'm done at the Garmin beep. I ran sign to sign to sign, then weed to weed to weed in the last tenths.
Ugh. Done. I didn't hurt anywhere, I wasn't sick or blistered or nothing like that. I was mentally drained, meaning I could benefit from more fuel. Really gotta work on that. I'll get back to this more when my head is recovered! Tomorrow!
NUMERICS
RUN 75.1 miles in 15hrs
BIKE 12.8 miles
WALKIES 18.3 miles
Taper Time!
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