Sunday, December 5, 2010

Nov. 29 - Dec. 5

This is just for record keeping purposes and my more extensive North Face Endurance Challenge race recap will come in the following days.

Monday 11/29
AM:  8 miles (1:00:02).  Fire Tower + trails
PM:  5 miles (38:00).  Portsmouth
Ran to the car shop, picked up my car, drove back to the school and continued on the flood wall and turf barefoot.

Tuesday 11/30
PM:  12 miles  (1:29:51).  Silver Arrow BT from Camp Oyo
Parked at Camp OYO and went South on Silver Arrow.  Went out 47 minutes and came back a little over 4 minutes faster.

Wednesday12/1
AM:  12 miles (1:29:15).  Trails from the house
Just did the main loop and up to the fire tower a couple of times.  It snowed.

Thursday 12/2
AM:  8 miles (1:01:40).  San Francisco, CA
Ran along the bay toward the Golden Gate Bridge and turned around when I got to the bottom of it. 

Friday 12/3
AM:  3.5 miles (28:00).  Marin Headlands
After a day of driving around the course seeing the different aid stations, I ran a little to get a good feel of how these trails are.  Ran from the Bootjack aid station parking lot.

Saturday 12/4
PM:  52 miles (7:17:47).  The North Face Endurance Challenge, 50 Mile Trail Championship
There will be an entire write-up of this to come in the near future.  Here are the results though.   

Sunday 12/5
PM:   3 miles (24:00).  San Francisco, CA
To gain the full experience of the ultra, I ran a little around town in the morning.  


Total Miles:  103.5
Total Time:  13:55:05

The week of my first ultra.... Dropped my miles a good bit.  One cool thing about this week is that it has now been an entire year since I have taken a day off.  My last day off was December 4th of 2009.  I suppose that streak will be longer unless I just feel I can't run sometime in the next couple of days.

Like I said, check back soon for a full post about the race.

WMO

5 comments:

  1. great race very excited for your future.

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  2. Awesome race Mike! I had a feeling you would kick some ass in ultra races. Now you just need to move to Boulder and get in with the "gang".

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  3. Thanks Jeff. Moving to the Boulder area could actually happen soon. I am in the grad school application process and U of Colorado is on the list. We will see what happens with that.

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  5. Cool Mike, good luck! It would be great to have you here to run with.

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