50k a week after 50M. Why not?
What an amazing running season!! I had planned on ending the year with my first 50M and write up a spectacular blog. But then this race happened to come along less than a week later and I feel this is what I need to write about. This race was all me. No friends to push me when it got hard. No one to give me those encouraging words during those tough miles. No jokes. Mostly silence. Back to how I started racing. Race day morning: 4:55am alarm “Why am I doing this again? How did it get to this (again?)” I had decided to sign up for the Glacial Trail 50K only 5 days after North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile race. It was my first 50 miler and it was exciting, painful, glorious… and painful. Did I mention it was painful? 12 hours, 33 min and 4 seconds of joking, singing and laughing. Oh, and running. I rode on that high for about a day or two before the post-race blues set in. I was done with the big race of the year. Now what? I had to admit my condition when...