Ok, so I don't even own a bed and all my belongings fit snugly in my car. I am hoarding races this year. They just keep piling up...and...I love it! The latest addition is Collegiate Peaks 50 Mile. It will be purely used as a training run, since it's only one week before Ice Age 50. May is the final month of training before the blur of 100 milers begins in June.
Though my schedule pales (a little) in comparison to this guy with Eight 100 milers scheduled (that's just crazy ;-), my year is filled with fun on its own. Adjusting my initial sights, the three big goals in order are:
1. Top 5 at Bear 100 and/or 20:xx finish time (last year was 23:05)
2. Top 5 at Leadville 100 and/or sub 19 hour finish time
3. San Diego sub 20 hour finish time
Am I shooting too high? Who knows, the placings are difficult to guess, since you never know who will be there and who may have a smashing run. The finish times are a bit more in control and though stout, they are doable.
I'm happy to have verbal commitments for crews at San Diego 100 and Leadville 100. I may have to run crew-less at Bear but would love to find someone to help there. Aric crewing for me was a major part in my run at Bear in September.
By December I should have raced over 900 miles this year. Double yikes!
Wednesday ramblings. Now off to run!
You should come down to Jemez instead of CP50.
ReplyDeleteHaving placing goals is a total roll of the dice...at a race like leadville sub-19 practically wins some years but other years it is outside the top-5. Just depends who shows up.
I'd do jemez but it's the wrong weekend.
ReplyDeleteI like your use of the and/or relative to time and/or placing goals. You never know who will show up to a race and you never know what the weather may be like (and so on)...
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with Nick on both points. I'll be at Jemez as well as a final tune up for SD100, though I may drop down to the 50k. In terms placing goals, I was hoping for a podium in Moab this coming weekend. Then I heard Burch, Parr, Jones, Callahan etc were running... time to re-evaluate!
ReplyDeleteTim,
ReplyDeleteI've got a question for you about McDavid. Can you e-mail me at (dr_casseday@yahoo.com) so I can pick your brain.
Thanks,
Adam
Yeah, I'd do jemez but I'll be doing A LOT of running for our mountain running camp the last week of May. Out of four weeks of may I'll be racing 50 miles two of them and running at 10-12k elevation for 80 miles another week, then have 11 days left before San Diego (that's german for whale's vagina) 100.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll be "tuned" up enough.
HOw many 100's have you finished so far?
ReplyDeleteAnon,
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Just a mere baby lamb in the dark, scary forest of 100s.
You can see pretty much all the official races I've run (missing three of them though) here http://ultrasignup.com/results_participant.aspx?fname=Tim&lname=Long&age=0
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