Rocky Raccoon 50 Mile, 2/2/2012 Huntsville, TX

aldousmom

I wrote a bit about my experience running my first 50 mile race.

Here's the deal: I ran a 50k in Dec, then had holidays, the flu for 2 wks-ish, then half way thru Jan half-assedly started training for a trail marathon 10wks away (then ..it's in 3?? wks now). I got up to 15 miles one saturday, woke up the next day and registered to run a 50 mile race that was 6 days away.

So, this is what happens when you run an ultra you haven't trained for. Actually, the only hard part was the new mileage and the dark on the last 20k . I PRed my 50k time.

so, anyway, here it is! Not much about the course, b/c the course was easy.
http://aldousmom.tumblr.com/post/43576576730/rocky-raccoon-50-miles-recap

jturnerx

ROTFL! Sounds familiar. Last summer I was back to a base building phase after an injury and had only gotten up to a long run of 19 miles. Pretty much on a whim I decided to do this 12 hour the following week. I figured if I felt terrible I could just stop after one of the laps and call it a day. I reached each milestone – half, full, 50k feeling okay so decided to keep going until I hit 50 miles which I did in 10:20. At the time it was my 2nd 50 miler. Luckily this was a fairly easy course with only 4,000 feet of elevation gain, not one of the typical monster hill courses around here that double or triple that amount of gain or I wouldn’t have attempted it. Not a training strategy I would generally recommend but it is interesting what our bodies can do. And I felt completely fine afterwards. It was kind of amazing and surprising actually.

Congratulations!

aldousmom

ROTFL! Sounds familiar. Last summer I was back to a base building phase after an injury and had only gotten up to a long run of 19 miles. Pretty much on a whim I decided to do this 12 hour the following week. I figured if I felt terrible I could just stop after one of the laps and call it a day. I reached each milestone – half, full, 50k feeling okay so decided to keep going until I hit 50 miles which I did in 10:20. At the time it was my 2nd 50 miler. Luckily this was a fairly easy course with only 4,000 feet of elevation gain, not one of the typical monster hill courses around here that double or triple that amount of gain or I wouldn’t have attempted it. Not a training strategy I would generally recommend but it is interesting what our bodies can do. And I felt completely fine afterwards. It was kind of amazing and surprising actually.

Congratulations!

obviously, we're idiots. I was perfectly fine the next morning, too, but the woman who crewed for me was limping b/c of her blister! ha ha! boy THAT was funny!

natalie412

Thanks for posting - really enjoyed reading that!