Road Marathoner’s reflections on first ultramarathon

Congrats! Ultra runners just awe me. The most I've raced is 13.1, and to go beyond 26.2 by several times is just a great achievement. Truly, I would love to see ultra running get recognized at the olympic level. Winter games, do a 100 miler or a 24 hour run.

Hey, an interesting, actually relevant reply to a post on Letsrun - who'd have thought it was possible!

Thanks! So, as you said, you'd already ran pretty hard before running ultras but if you hadn't do you think that ultras help give you that same mental toughness? Or was it just the pure conditioning of training for the longer distances which put you in shape to run sub 16?

What the heck have you monsters done to my initial thread the first couple responses were a great discussion and response to my analysis of my first ultra run everything else since then has been pure poison it just goes to show crappy this form is you guys are pure poison

The scoop wrote:

i'm slow enough at the 'thon to think about moving up wrote:

Congrats on your first ultra finish and great write up, thank you for sharing.

How did you train for this vs your normal road marathon training?

I did 6.75miles a day, generally, on trail loop 10 minutes from my house that had 600 feet in elevation change. I think, to do a 50 miler or 100k, I would need to up it to 10 miles. I also think keeping 800m repeats would be smart which is something I dropped. I’m kicking myself today for not running it faster in parts or waiting too long at an aide station, but at the time I was in some pain lol

5/10 - lots of good responses, but marks taken off for revealing the trolling so early on

Wher are you wrote:

Where are all the trolls blasting op for racewalking? Sounds to me like op tried to diversify his running and now understands just how tough ultras are to run when actually running them. Good for him. More of you trolls should try an ultra it’ll shut you up.

He did under 7 miles a day. I do more ultra training than op when I'm prepping for a 5k

RunninAD wrote:

Wher are you wrote:

Where are all the trolls blasting op for racewalking? Sounds to me like op tried to diversify his running and now understands just how tough ultras are to run when actually running them. Good for him. More of you trolls should try an ultra it’ll shut you up.

He did under 7 miles a day. I do more ultra training than op when I'm prepping for a 5k

To clarify, I did 7 miles a day through elevation on incredibly technical trail which is much different than a track. I also did a long run of 25 miles every saturday and took sunday off. My weekly totals came to 70 miles a week. I also have a family with a job so thats about my max training allotment. Those 70 miles are way tougher as they were on tough trail.

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The Scoop wrote:

RunninAD wrote:

He did under 7 miles a day. I do more ultra training than op when I'm prepping for a 5k

To clarify, I did 7 miles a day through elevation on incredibly technical trail which is much different than a track. I also did a long run of 25 miles every saturday and took sunday off. My weekly totals came to 70 miles a week. I also have a family with a job so thats about my max training allotment. Those 70 miles are way tougher as they were on tough trail.

What kind of training were you doing when you ran your 2:41 marathon?

This thread seemed believable enough off the 10k training per day. Later saying there was a weekend 25 miler and a day off raises serious questions about why you wouldn't mention that earlier on when describing your training. Also, let's say it's the 7 miles you say instead of the 10k you said earlier.

(7x5=35)+(25+0=25)=60 miles per week

Why do you say you did 70 miles per week if even your highest descriptions of your training don't have you reaching 70 miles per week?

I like your post about ultra running and whether true or not it's an accurate enough accounting of what ultra runners go through. I just don't get why your training story is changing with every post.

OP is a troll.

Either prove you’re not or GFY.