On Saturday, there was a 5K race starting at RoguEQ, so we were asked to start our run from elsewhere to increase the parking availability. We had a 14 miler on our schedule as it was a recovery week. It was a fun run me, since I typed up a trip ticket to my 14 mile "Turista" route and proposed that as a run. A route that doesn't require anyone to put out water for us, and runs around town by some of the more popular touristy sights, and some less touristy, but still sights to see. Surprisingly, quite a few people from the team came out to run it. I think most enjoyed it. Even if they didn't, who cares. We needed 14 miles, and we got it. We then had a fun team breakfast filling up a table of about 16 at Maudies.
Sunday, 6 of us met up at Barton Springs for a point to point 10.5 mile run on the greenbelt. I got a really weird feeling of excitement when I stopped on the way to our meeting spot to leave a gallon of water for bottle refills. I was soooo excited to get out on the greenbelt, it honestly felt like christmas! I haven't felt this way about a run in a long long time, which then sparked thoughts of my upcoming training for a long distance trail race next winter. I'm already ready to train for my January trail race!
Not that I'm not enjoying my road marathon training for Boston, and won't enjoy training for our October road marathon, but I am already REALLY excited to start doing some really long training runs on the greenbelt trails to prepare for next January's trail race I'm planning to run. I know most of the greenbelt pretty well, but I'm really excited to get to go out for a 3... 5... 7 hour trail runs where I can just hop on a trail I've never tried before. I'll need tons of "trail time" so it'll be the perfect time to just hop on unknown trails and get lost. Learning to run that long, nutrition it requires, and the adventures it will bring is something I can't wait to do!
But why am I so excited about building up to a 45 mile training run!? I think I'm turning into one of those freaks everyone talks about!
6 comments:
turning? seriously?!
Turning into?? You have already become one... along time ago :)
yes "turning".
lest we forgot, i'm not the one trying to swim and bike at the same time as training for a marathon.
You don't need a 45 mile training run for a 100K. You could use if for a 100 miler though...
in your opinion, how far should my longest run be, then? I want to be semi-competitive. Not going out to win it, but I think top 10 is achievable if i train correctly.
(Joe P suggested 45miles when i ran into him a couple of weeks ago.)
I'd do (and did, when I trained for that race) a bunch of 25-30 milers, then do the Sunmart 50, then taper to Bandera. Sunmart should be your longest time out there (I'm guessing you'd run around 9 hours there, give or take half an hour). Really gotta be careful of injuries once you start running those kinds of hours.
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