Race Day... Jemez Mountain 50....miles or kilometers?????
All started off well. I felt 100% and strong. It was a beautiful morning. I ran nice and easy. I stayed with my hydration/nutrition plan that I had practiced in all my long runs leading up to the race. The climbe up the black diamond ski slope at mile 16 was killer. It took a full 30 minutes for one mile and that was without stopping. Then I got to desend. I did wipe out once but didn't hurt myself too bad. I was still feeling good and taking it easy through 25 and then around 26 all of the sudden I got nauseous. I sat down for 5 minutes and gathered myself and then continued on. The next 8 miles were brutal climbing out of a canyon with the sun beating on me. I ran out of water at mile 31 and still had 3 miles to go to the aid staion. I was walking slowly and threw up a couple times. I finally made it to the mile 34 aid staion and hoped to sit down for a while and gather myself and continue on, but the nausea just got worse and I couldn't stop throwing up so after an hour and a half at the aid station, I called it a day. Doone was able to drive and pick me up at the aid staion and we went back to the hotel where I continued to feel nauseous and throwing up for aboout 6 more hours, then I was suddenly fine.
Sunday morning I woke up feel super hungry but otherwise fine. My legs are not sore even a little bit. I'm just perplexed as to why this keeps happening on race days when I training I ran farther, faster, using the exact same nutrition/hydration with no problems at all. It's very frustating.
I did go 55 K for my 50th birthday!!!
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