Back on the Trail Again! 
It's been awhile, So Sunday was the Hobo 50k. It was the 3rd in the 4 race series of the Illinois Grand Slam trail series.
Not sure how it was going to go, because I have been pretty lazy since my Great Illini IM race three weeks ago.
So I meet up with one of the Chia runners, Brian, to do some representing for the club.
The normal start was Race director saying "GO".
I started off at 10:00 min pace a tried to hold around a low zone 3 heart rate. It was two 15.5 loops with one water crossing. I actually ran pretty well the 1st loop, very minimal walking on the hills and felt pretty strong most of the time.
Then the dreaded second loop. Just tried to keep a descent pace and walked a little bit more on the hills. I was waiting for some cramping to creep up on me. But it never did happen. I did start to feel all the twist and turns on my ankles a little more. But I got through it pretty well. The thing about racing for 5+ hours, there are always good and bad moments and have to keep reminding myself of that.
But I must say the last 5k was not to fun. Walked a little more and was hoping to break 6 hours for the 1st time at this trail ultra distance.
With a finishing time of 5:44, I got myself a 15+ minute PR. Felt pretty good about that, since I trained less and pretty much ate apple danishes for the past 3 weeks, then get a PR. I might have to stick with this training plan.
Overall the race was pretty good event, the aid stations was pretty sparse, but had HOBO stew and a HOBO beggars tin cup as our finishing award.
(me and Brian after the Finish)
And yes they even had some apple strudel danishes for post race goodies.
So I will be back.
It's been awhile, So Sunday was the Hobo 50k. It was the 3rd in the 4 race series of the Illinois Grand Slam trail series.
Not sure how it was going to go, because I have been pretty lazy since my Great Illini IM race three weeks ago.
So I meet up with one of the Chia runners, Brian, to do some representing for the club.
The normal start was Race director saying "GO".
I started off at 10:00 min pace a tried to hold around a low zone 3 heart rate. It was two 15.5 loops with one water crossing. I actually ran pretty well the 1st loop, very minimal walking on the hills and felt pretty strong most of the time.
Then the dreaded second loop. Just tried to keep a descent pace and walked a little bit more on the hills. I was waiting for some cramping to creep up on me. But it never did happen. I did start to feel all the twist and turns on my ankles a little more. But I got through it pretty well. The thing about racing for 5+ hours, there are always good and bad moments and have to keep reminding myself of that.
But I must say the last 5k was not to fun. Walked a little more and was hoping to break 6 hours for the 1st time at this trail ultra distance.
With a finishing time of 5:44, I got myself a 15+ minute PR. Felt pretty good about that, since I trained less and pretty much ate apple danishes for the past 3 weeks, then get a PR. I might have to stick with this training plan.
Overall the race was pretty good event, the aid stations was pretty sparse, but had HOBO stew and a HOBO beggars tin cup as our finishing award.
(me and Brian after the Finish)
And yes they even had some apple strudel danishes for post race goodies.
So I will be back.
posted by RunBubbaRun at 9:32 PM
14 Comments:
CONGRATS!! What an awesome race, homie!
ROFLMAO you do not even know how funny this is
"Felt pretty good about that, since I trained less and pretty much ate apple danishes for the past 3 weeks, then get a PR"
If that's the key I should kick butt at every race! HAHAHAHHAAA Dude, you crack me up!
Hmmmmm. Maybe you've found the magic recipe for PRs.
Maybe I need to start with the apple danishes myself. ;-)
Good job!!
I love races that have awards you can use!
Great job and congrats on the PR!
way to post that huge p.r.....wow...15 minutes
congrats!!!!!
you are just a machine.... danishes and less training equals a pr.....
i think you just put all endurance coaches outof business...ha!!
and I was feeling guilty about the pamitis - heck why can't it work for me like that :)
Congrats on a race well run.
Dennis, way to go!!!! Great performance out there. I'd like for all of your readers to know that you were on fire out there. I tried to keep up with you, but after that 1st loop, you just took off and left me in the dust. It was fun running with you. You'll do awesome at Farmdale in a few weeks too.
Woah, I almost forgot that I have a blog report to write too. better get on that.
Congratulations again!
Brian
That sounds like a good training plan. Great cup!
nice work Dennis!! 5:44 is a great time. Glad to see you keep knocking down some good trail miles. Any thought of McNaughton again? I'm signed up already and fully plan on finishing this year :)
Way to go, Bubba! That's a great PR!! Congrats!
Just another 50K walk in the park....GREAT job on the PR man.
Congrats on the PR! I'm pretty sure if I ate nothing but danishes, I wouldn't be getting faster :)
Sounds like the start of an amazing winning streak. Congrats on the PR!
Great job!
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