ultrarunning

David Roche decided to run the Leadville 100 ultra on short notice with the goal to just finish, ghe explained in a subscriber only podcast the night before the race. He expected it to be at least 30 mins slower than his last year's course record. Instead, he beat it by 14 minutes.

Quite an accomplishment and definitely a mental boost after his DNF as WSER this year.

I started running back in March and so far I've completed a few trail 5ks and a road 10k. I'm currently doing half marathon training with about 6 weeks left in the program with my big goal to run a trail 30 miler next September. Does that seem attainable?

After completing the half marathon training I'm planning on taking a few weeks rest and then starting a marathon training program.

I've tried to incorporate some form of semi-speed walking into my race strategy, both from necessity and just trying to reach my target miles.

I know this is an older article, but its still pretty relevant. I always feel odd doing the whole hip thing and generally revert to just walking fast if that makes sense.

Do you all practice any particular walking techniques you can recommend?

I'm in the twilight of my ultrarunning for sure, but still love getting outside and finding that place where your body and mind just flow over the ground while your moving forwards.

I'm a slow runner, never felt speed was what did it for me. But I always enjoyed just running for hours.

I started with 5/10K's back in the 80's, I think the Perrier 10K in Central park was my first race. Again I knew I would never be in the top, but just enjoyed the challenge.

Trained for my 1st marathon, remember this was pre-web days so a lot was done so wrong. But finished it. Ran a few a year, then life, kids, but when I turned 31 I did a 50K and loved it. Of course when I turned 50 I had to do a 50 miler, 12 hours later I was done and loved it.

Attempted my 1st 100 miler when I turned 60, ok I know I'm aging myself, and come down with some freak structural issue and had to bail at 72 miles. But I worked it out and was able to complete my 100 miles 8 months later and have run a few more in the past few years.

Of course I left out all the good stuff; training, illness, how many times can you puke in a 2 hour period, what plan's seem to work best, etc. But thats where I hope you all fill in all that good stuff.

Anyway, nice to see you here and lets here about your whys, whats and hows.