Wow, for about a year, I forgot I had a blog here. I suppose I'll write something.
Reality check-
I'll be turning thirty this year, which means I'm practically dead.
While brushing my teeth this morning, I realized that there are a lot of things I want to accomplish - one of them being the completion of an ultra-marathon.
So I'm going to run an ultra marathon this year (which is basically a race of any distance exceeding the conventional 26.2 mile marathon). This is certainly a daunting task, and will require a vast amount of training.
Having completed an Ironman 70.3 race in 2010, I have enough respect for endurance races to know that an ultra marathon will be difficult; extremely difficult. I've been researching races here in Colorado, and the race that intrigues me most is the Leadville Silver Rush 50 miler. Online training plans look time consuming, and I'm not entirely certain that I will have the bandwidth to handle school, family, work, and training. Of course there's only one way to find out.
While I undertake training for the next eight months, I'll attempt to present periodic progress updates amidst life's normal happenings.
I'd like to document the road to completing an ultra...
...or failing.
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Hey dude! That is pretty exciting that you are going to do an ultra marathon. Have you done a normal marathon? Good luck, bro! And don't even THINK about asking me to do it with you.
Fraze! You SHOULD run it with me! :) Haha. Actually... you should mtb the Leadville 50 the day before... then we could plan on staying up there before/after, and we could hang out for a few days!
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