2.13.16 Super Saturday

Well there it is, I'm an ultra marathoner! Today i did my first 50k, 31 friggin miles in a (respectable? probably not) time of 5 hours and 49 minutes. It started out at 9am with me blasting Deep Purple over the stereo while I put vaseline, bandaids and tape over my nippies. Now there's a hell of an image that you can all keep tucked away for the next time you're feeling lonely at night. I ran down to my favorite place to exercise, the 10 mile multi use trail that goes around the lake. On the weekends it's flooded with hundreds, maybe even thousands of athletes, many of them quite interesting people. One guy for example passed me on his bike, no hands on the handlebars because he was too busy playing his flute. It was a beautiful day with warm sun and a cool breeze. My feast consisted of salty purple potatoes, bananas, gels, and of course plenty of dark chocolate. The sweat that rained out of my body dried and turned my skin into 80 grit sandpaper. I wish I had taken a picture of what it looked like by the end of it. By mile 14 I busted out the ibuprofen, by 17 I was on my knees, head in the dirt stretching my hips out. By 20 I was having some trouble with the downstairs plumbing, not too serious and it's hard to pinpoint what caused it because there were so many variables to consider. By mile 23 I was starting to run out of steam (hard to believe right?) and by mile 27 my bar of dark chocolate was callin the shots. I won't lie to you, when I finished, the very thought of doing all that PLUS another 19 miles sat pretty hard in my stomach, but now that its been a few hours I can say that i don't feel too too bad. I'm not exactly going out dancing for the rest of the night but at least I can walk ok. This 50 mile race is going to be one hell of an experience. In addition to the training I've been putting in, the best thing that I have going for me is that I'm too stubborn and foolish to let reality get in the way. 

I hope you're all having awesome break through workouts!

An hour spin class at the gym.  They have new spin bikes with power meters that seem quite accurate.  My FTP is around 160 and both of the times I've taken the class on these new bikes I've averaged right around there. 

Congrats!  I'm thinking of doing a 50K this year so I too can be an ultra marathoner.