Well... the plan was to update every 2 weeks, and keep an online diary of sorts, outlining my training and just to share some of my experiences and thoughts as I play around with ultra-marathon running. 2 weeks after the You Yangs, I was still a mess, so decided to wait until I was back into some reasonable running... another 4 weeks and I was still struggling... I only feel in the last couple of weeks I have gotten back to some reasonable running form (10 weeks after the race). I must say though, I am still not feeling 100%. Even so, I have managed to put together a couple of good weeks now though... 70km 3 weeks ago... then 97km... and 120km over the past week.
I have also decided on another ultra to do, the Two Bays 56km Trail Race in January http://www.twobaystrailrun.com/ . With quite a short amount of time to go - only weeks - I am very aware of the long runs I do at the moment... last weekend I did 20km on Saturday (the longest I had run since the You Yangs) and then 30km on the Sunday. This weekend I ran 25km on the Saturday - running the last 5km at under 4 minutes per km pace... hard in the heat (about 30 deg C). Today (Sunday) I ran 35km. Nothing like jumping back in the deep end. Having said that, I am hoping (counting on) a training effect from the YYs and also an accumulated effect of the last years training...!
I will have an easier week this week... then 3 hard weeks before a short (1 week) taper leading into the race.
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