Well that was humbling!!!! Ha ha ha!!! I thought 50km would be easy but no!! Actually it went quite fast with aid stations about every 8km… I pulled a glute muscle early on and worried it would be a problem, but apart from having to stop and stretch a few times it was okay… I got this heavy lungs feeling towards the end which I guess was due to the relentless uphills… I’ll send you the elevation profile… there’s basically no flat at all!!! Anyway, beautiful weather, beautiful scenery, but I think I need a few more very long training runs before the 100k! Xx
There are 50ks and then there are 50ks. And that was probably a 50k which was more like an 70k with those hills. Outrageous. But you got it done, it’s another one complete. I would say always have a look at a route/elevation when entering a race. Most ultras are going to be challenging, but that’s an insane amount of elevation given the distance. We’ll definitely increase the longer runs now for the 100k (leave that with me) and the fact we have the nicer weather and longer evenings coming our way, that will help. Great work though Anna.