Training for this Ultra has probably been one of the most difficult things I have ever attempted. \u00a0Really. \u00a0Increasing my distance a little bit each week, well, it has totally drained me.<\/p>\n
The Mississippi Summer weather has been unseasonably warm and humid. \u00a0It has sucked the life right out of me. \u00a0I am exhausted all the time and hardly have anything left in me from day to day.<\/p>\n
So…..<\/p>\n
I am done monkeying around with adding a mile on each week. \u00a0Done, I tell you! \u00a0Tomorrow I am going to try to do my longest training run for the Ultra.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, I am going to try to run 28 miles.<\/p>\n
I have to know if I can do it. \u00a0The race is 44 days away. \u00a0I have plenty of time left to run this distance but if I can do it tomorrow, it will take away a lot of the anxiety of adding on a mile each week.<\/p>\n
The longest I have successfully completed is close to 23 miles. \u00a0I know that ideally, this is a stretch to jump to this many miles. \u00a0Once I know I can complete this distance, though, I won’t have to run that far again before race day. \u00a0That is a comfort. \u00a0I would only have to run 20, 24 milers. \u00a0Sweet!<\/p>\n
So, keep your fingers crossed for me tomorrow. \u00a0I am actually pretty excited to do this! \u00a0Woo-Hoo!<\/p>\n
The other thing I have done is change my route. \u00a0I have been running on a very hilly highway between two towns. \u00a0It is a grueling run. \u00a0Absolutely no shade on that route whatsoever. \u00a0So, I am not going to run around our neighborhood. \u00a0It is an 8 mile route, out and back. \u00a0I will have to repeat this a few times to get all the miles in. \u00a0It has a tiny bit of shade and some hills but not a lot. \u00a0I am going to give it a try anyway.<\/p>\n
That is the plan. \u00a0Think kind thoughts. \u00a0This will probably take me 6-7 hours. \u00a0I am a slow poke. \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Here we go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Training for this Ultra has probably been one of the most difficult things I have ever attempted. \u00a0Really. \u00a0Increasing my distance a little bit each week, well, it has totally drained me. The Mississippi Summer weather has been unseasonably warm and humid. \u00a0It has sucked the life right out of me. \u00a0I am exhausted all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}