I just signed up for my 2nd ultra - Chuckanut 50k. Registrations opened this morning and the 500 spots filled up in 1 hr and 15 minutes. Amazing! Kind of crazy too, since the race is only 10 weeks away. So everyone that signed up has already been training - none of this, I’ll sign up and then train later, NO, start running and if you are not broken by registration, then you can sign up.
Just thinking of the mileage I have to do over the next few weeks is making me hurt. Bah! Whatever, I don’t have time to complain, I need to get a long run in.
It’s been a few days since I did this run and I was pretty out of if for most of the run because of the extra warm weather, so this recap will be more or less a bullet point recap.
Race day ended up being one of the warmest day in Seattle for the year. Ok, so high 70s isn’t hot, but considering that temp is more than 10 degrees warmer than my training runs, it was enough to make the run hard.
The big race was 50 miles for crazy ultra runners or and relay team split up into 12 legs. There is also a 50k for people like me, who wanted to do an ultra, but not super crazy.
My friend Bri was kind enough to be my support team for this run. She will be driving to each relay exchange point to make sure I’m ok and cheer me on. On to the race -
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