Lunch-10 miles with the biggest lunch run group ever, 10 runners. Quite the herd. Did upper body work after, something that I think will help at Barkley.
Finally caught up on 6 months of blogging, and a bunch of race reports (all except TNF San Fran). Read here, if you want. The entire 6 months is shorter than my Bear 100 race report, at least. 2012 Year in Review and a Look Ahead
To be honest, I have mixed feelings about 2012. For no reason in
particular, I don’t felt it was quite as good as 2011. I ran the most miles
ever and was relatively injury free, both positives. I won 7 races ranging in
distance from 1 mile to 50k and set 5 PR’s, including 4 in one race at a
relatively-satisfying Umstead 100. Winning StumpJump was an unexpected
highlight. But for some reason, I think I left a bit on the table. Not racing
Waldo was definitely a mistake, and I had a number of races where my performance
range from a bit subpar (Uwharrie, Iron Mountain) to downright abysmal (TNF
50).
For 2013, I expect myself to improve. I plan to keep mileage
about the same but want to increase the number of Big Workouts (especially hill
work), which I feel decreased over the last few years. Beyond that, I want to
keep racing, running, and having fun.
Planned races:
January- Harbison 50k
February- Mt. Mitchell Challenge or marathon
March- Probably Chuckanut 50k, if I get in the lottery
April- The Barkley Marathons, if I get in from the wait list (I’m
number 11). Yes, this is THE Barkley and is completely nuts. I plan to train
accordingly. For the record, I never would have imagined running this race even
a few months ago and now I find myself strangely excited. If I don’t get in the
Barkley, I’ll do Promise Land 50k
May- recover, or go Massanutten 100 (wait listed) if I didn’t do
Barkley
June- nada
July- White River 50 (yup, 2 trips to Seattle for races)
August- maybe Laurel Valley 35, maybe nothing
End of year- plan to do TNF Atlanta 50, then Pinhoti 100, the
Lookout Mtn 50. Might do Georgia Jewel 100 or Grindstone 100 instead of
Pinhoti | 