One thing that boils my blood is dumb, inbred, redneck minded morons. If you're retarded enough to shoot your gun randomly into the woods from a 4x4 trail, at least get your fat ass down on the ground and pick up your garbage. I picked these up on my run, 25 shotgun shells scattered all over the trail. Idiots.
The run was sharp. PR'd my 2.27 mile climb by 30 seconds, trimming it down to 23:45. I think once I get under 23 mins it's going to get tough to shave seconds off.
Oh, and thanks for the feedback on yesterday's post. Took the Laramie race off the schedule. The Leadman title (and record) is the only goal.
You're riding up a storm.
ReplyDeleteShells: I call that the "Earth is my personal trash can" ethic (or non-ethic).
Sounds about right. My buddy in Nevada wrote me last night that shotgun shells are the state flower there.
ReplyDeleteUgh. One of my biggest pet peeves next to cigarette butts. It's even worse when you're close by while they're shooting. Last summer we we're up in Lump Gulch and someone was shooting near by. Scary as fu<k.
ReplyDeleteThe record is soft I think and I would be surprised if it didn't go down this year. Both my bikes could have been faster and the 10k cost me time on the 100 run.
A really fast 50 run, with their conversion, could take ~20:00 off. But a really fast run won't come after the 50 bike. The 50 bike is harder than the 100 bike! Then an 8:00 bike was maybe possible? Then 1:00 faster on the 100 run?
About two hours faster over-all if everything clicked.
Ha!
ReplyDeleteSoft record. I think my only real chance that I'm hoping for is a fast ride in the 50 and then a perfect 100 run of 19-19:30. No way I'll come close on the marathon or 10k. And, starting so far back in the 100 bike will make that ride tough to go faster than avg 12mph. Nothing can ever be counted on in these long events. All I can do is put in all the required training and hope things fall into place in the races.
I rode faster starting in the last coral! The key to that is to ride quite aggressively in the neutral roll out which you, with your crit experience, will do far better than I did. I probably lost 100 spots in the first 5 miles which stuffed me even harder at the bottle neck once we started up St Kevins. You gotta get around the 2 corrals in front of you!
ReplyDeleteWith out doubt 19:00-19:30 is the key! Do that and ride just OK (like I did) and you'll get it. I don't regret hammering the 10k, but it cost me in the 100 run.
And I do think the record is about 2- 2.5 hours soft :)
Well, I agree the record can be trimmed. The dilema is that not many people can ride a mtb for 100 miles at 10,000-13,000 ft elevation at 12mph average AND run a 100 mile race at 10,000-12,600 ft elevation in 11-11:30 pace average. Several can do one or the other but not both (or at least don't have the interest in one or the other disciplines).
ReplyDeleteAs you showed last year, it takes a mountain of base, strength, specific training (excuse the pun). Months and months of training. And then you have to execute as close to perfection as possible. And then you need a little outside help/luck for it to all come together for the title and record.
Macy, on paper, is the favorite. He's never run further than 46 miles (NF in San Fran in Dec) as far as I know. He'll cruise the mtb but he'll still have to run a perfect first 100 miler for the title. Heard a rumor that Dave Mackey was considering Leadman too.
I don't care who toes the line. My confidence is off the charts and my fitness and training backs it.
all this leadman talk... awesome. I would love to give it a go... but I'd likely suffocate.
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