Race update for everyone: (thanks for all the awesome support thru my training and today!) Ending up DNFing at 40.3 miles after running for 14 hours and covering 11,500 ft elevation gain & 11,000 ft loss. Got really bad blisters this run (thanks to the race crew for duck taping my feet!) that would have made it tough to finish plus needed to average 9 min miles the last 2 hours. Fell 6 times on course due to how technical the hills were so have some nice battle wounds. Overall amazingly challenging, a great experience (my lungs, heart and leg muscles feel great! No soreness besides knee and blisters on feet). Another 50 miler another day. For now, ran 10 miles further and at much higher elevation change. Not happy with the Dnf but satisfied that I gave it my best and felt great!
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 04:58:03 +0000