Consistancy and Race Planning

The past three weeks, I’ve been gradually running a bit more consistently. I’ve also bumped up my weekend mileage gradually and so far so good. My right leg is still having some hamstring pain, but it’s more muscular than anything and stretching things out has worked well both during and post run.

My weekly mileage since my last post has looked like this:

Feb 15-21: 24.7 Miles

Feb 22-28: 31.7 Miles

Feb 29-March 6: 35.9 Miles

March 7-13: 37.3 Miles

I’ve had a couple of people ask me how I’m training to run 100 miles, and the key is going to be stacking my weekend days with long runs. My weekend days will be spent on the trail and the peak-week of training has 60 miles stacked over two weekend days.

The past few weekend bricks have looked like this (sat/sun mileage): 6.5/13, 15/7, 17/7, 9/18

My heart-rate and cardio system are falling in line where they should be. I did a tempo run this week at 7:15 pace along the Cherry Creek Path and felt surprisingly awesome. It has been a long time since I’ve pushed pace so I was happy to see that things are falling in line.

I’ve been working on a pacing spreadsheet for Leadville which should give me a window of goal times for the race and each aid station. I broke down a 24-28 hour finish window into pacing for each stretch of the race. I hope to memorize the first 50 miles of the plan prior to race day, and let my crew and pacers help me stick the rest of it.

It’s overwhelming thinking about it all, but I suppose one day and step at a time and I’ll get there.