Runner In Training

Well the new year is here and like so many other runners I've been looking up the qualifying runs for WS(Western State) and then looking to see which runs I think I could use, to Qualify for WS 2013. Of course, the run (Last chance 50 in Sac. Ca) which I used to qualify last year is no longer on the list. I hear the list is going to get shorter as the field of hopefuls continues to grow.

I was reading a fellow runners blog http://www.TheRunnersTrip.com in which Sarah Lavender was talking about how some of the more popular runs were filling-up faster than ever, due to all the new runners. I have to admit that I, too, am one of the newer runners on the scene. Although it was the Ultratrail runners Magazine that got me into running ultras.  Sarah mentioned a women who had qualified for WS five years in a row and was never pick in the lottery, and she did not make it into the Miwok 100k. I thought that really sucks, but Dam she qualified five years in a row! I'm not sure I can qualify again this year....

My training is in full swing. After running 72.1 miles in my first 24 hour run, on New Years eve, I took a week off. Then I fasted/cleansed for 10 day. Only lemon juice, maple syrup and pepper in an 8oz glass of water , every hour, for ten days, lost 15lbs. Anyway I began my diet a new, all organic home cooked meals, and I also began my training, to my first 100 miler, in earnest.  I'm running 5 days a week and x-training twice a week. I'm taking two days a week off, NO anything, well unless I have a race. 

Oh big news! My girl Amy Rogers, will be running her first solo trail run on the 11th of Feb. at the Golden Gate 13 mile run. By solo we mean she's running without me.  My first run is going to be Canyon Meadows 50k March 17th and then I will be trying to PR at the Oakland Marathon on the 25th of March.  OH! I have been talking to Carilyn Johnson http://carilynjohnson.com/ about pacing her at WS. I'm not sure if I'm up to her level. I was thinking I could pace her but after I checked out her history, I'm thinking she may run faster after 64 miles then I can fresh....LOL We'll see. Last thing I would want to do is slow her down, at any rate I'm hoping to be a part of WS in some small way.

Okay then, I guess it's time to go and get my run in for the day and then cook dinner for me and my son. I hope you all have a great season and I hope to see some of you out on the trails.

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