Ultrasignup Results and Strava track.
I actually forgot to write anything about this race in the days afterwards, which is unusual because I enjoy writing the highlights so I don't forget them. And now its 66 days since the race, and I literally don't remember much at all about it.
How screwy do you have to be to run a double marathon and not really remember that. It's also a good indicator of the fact that I've become comfortable with a typical 50 miler... I don't really need to train or prepare for it beyond making sure I run a few 20-25mi training runs in the month prior.
And that brings me to the next race on the calendar. I've tried to continually increase the overall difficulty over the years, incremental steps of ever longer and more difficult races.
July 6th is Cry Me A River (CMAR), which has a Half Marathon, 50k, 100k, and 100 miler. I ran the 50k (which was actually 35 miles) in 2017, and I had never been there until race day. I was a bit stunned by the beauty of the three parks through which the 20 mile loop runs. But even moreso, how much more vertical climb it has than any other course in this region. So this year, I've committed to the 100 mile race, five loops with a total 23,500ft of climb! For comparison, the Pot100 race had only 16kft of climb, and was in freezing cold temps.
I don't run well in the heat, and July typically has both heat and humidity. Heat plus a brutal amount of climb and a reasonably tight time limit (34 hours) will certainly make the hardest challenge yet.
