Ultramarathon thinking

I'm meeting Karl at the weekend to start putting together a plan for the Ultramarathon.

Here's the site.

It's going to be 60km. Right now I've been doing a few 6km so it's time to push the boat out a bit.

Sam has proven that a good plan means great things. Once you stick to it.

First of all, I belive that I can do it.

November

2nd November 6km

December >> Waterford 1/2 Marathon

January

February

March

>> April 11th

21st February http://www.maratonvalencia.com/ could be good.

I've just read a post about the race and this is what it says:

"For those who think it's mad running 39.3 miles here's how I get my head around it: I jog really slowly for 13 miles, even slower than I think I should. I'm trying to make those miles not register in my legs. Then when I get to the 13 mile mark I forget about them altogether and starting counting up the marathon miles. So in effect I start to count the miles from scratch at that point. So when I get to mile 14 I actually count that as mile 1 and so on from there. That's cos that's how it's predominantly marked from then on. It fools your brain and so kinda fools your legs!

The next 13 miles are fairly flat so I run at my normal pace. Towards the end of this 13 miles as I'm coming towards Leenane I start to meet marathoners from the regular marathon race. This is a great distraction as I say hi and how's it going to anyone I pass.

The next 13 miles is all mostly uphill but the key thing is once you turn at Leenane with 13 miles more to go, you just keep telling yourself at that stage that you are heading for home. Just get up those hills, one foot in front of the other, that's all it is and get home as fast as you can."