I don’t want any of you to think I have retired for running after my Barkley experience a few weeks ago.
I will be competing at a 100 kilometer road race (about 62 miles) this weekend in my hometown of Madison, WI. This is a race I have done a few times before and is actually the US National Championships at that distance. A lot of ultrarunners do not prefer running on asphalt, so there are not a lot of runners competing (actually only 15 of us). I’ll be wearing #7.
This is a 10K loop around a nature area (arboretum near the University of Wisconsin campus). www.madcity100k.com
The race starts at 6:30 AM tomorrow morning and split times for each loop will be listed in real time at: www.runrace.net/findarace.php?id=13110WI1&tab=a5&runumbr=7#sPrt
I am hoping to run a very steady race of 54 min per loop which would give me an overall finish time of around 9 hours. This would be a 20 min PR for me at this race. I usually go out way too fast and peter off in the end. I’m hoping age has made me smarter.
I hope you are all doing well and the recent events in Boston certainly put all this into perspective.
All the best -
Ryan
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