Greensand marathon is a tough race so great prep for an ultra. This stretch of the south downs way has some solid climbs but i would not say as relentless as Greensand. Obviously this race is a bit longer. My guess it would be a between 7-9 depending on the weather.
Accommodation wise i was looking at the premier inn in worthing.
Compared to other 50 milers maybe? Canal route being no more than a 5, trail with some hills up to 9 (depending on the hills), mountains or bog filled heath 9-12?
The difficulty does come from how you run it; I was planning a two person team in panto horse costume...
How do you fuel your way around this length of race? I occasionally have an energy gel or something on a Marathon. Do you stop and eat something halfway? Or eat anything more substantial during the race?
Don't listen to WiB, he moves too fast for food anyway, he's fuelled mostly by sunlight and shot bloks.
Eat whatever you can keep down, test your nutrition on your long runs to see what works for you, personally I work on a shot blok/gel mix and then whatever takes my fancy at each aid station
I carry (and consume) Kendal mint cake, fig rolls and malt loaf on my long runs. Really enjoyed savory stuff such as cheese wraps on NDW50 last year and I've started eating some sandwiches, pasties etc. on some of my long runs (e.g. sandwich on recent recce of the second half of Thames Trot 50). Should be a variety of edibles available along SDW50, at the aid stations.
Pantman do you mean 37m per week of 37 mile runs? If its the latter you're already an ultra runner and you certainly don't need to go any further in your training runs
Latter. Yeah, probably won't do any further other than running my age (41) on my birthday next month. Main goal is the NDW100 so the 50s will be building me up to that.
The answer would have been the former had it been asked of me. Ahh well, plenty of time to increase the distance ahead of April- starting with a planned run from Southease to Eastbourne on Saturday along the route...
I live in worthing, don't think there really is any. Very close but you might find a b&b in Broadwater, and that's close to the start. Someone mentioned a Premier Inn but I don't even know where that is.
You could try Findon. It's a drive from the race start but only 5 minutes.
Otherwise you can get something on the seafront in Worthing, easy tofnd on theinternet angling from a guest house to a 4 star.
If you need any more local knowledge, I'll try and be more Elpinm next time.
Pantman do you mean 37m per week of 37 mile runs? If its the latter you're already an ultra runner and you certainly don't need to go any further in your training runs
Lirish - Pantman is "rather good" btw when he gets his mojo together. I suspect he will be in the top 5 and I won't be surprised if he wins it.....
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Accommodation wise i was looking at the premier inn in worthing.
Compared to other 50 milers maybe? Canal route being no more than a 5, trail with some hills up to 9 (depending on the hills), mountains or bog filled heath 9-12?
The difficulty does come from how you run it; I was planning a two person team in panto horse costume...
And by your scale no more than seven, it's all perfectly runnable by an average runner
Which would depend on your definition of average, of course.
What happened to the 1-10 scale?! Are we just making our own scales up now?
Working on a scale of 3 - Z I would rate the course as Orange.
I don't think i can take this any more! It's all... just... so... ARBITRARY!
(And that's exactly how I'll describe my dismal finishing place at the end of the SDW50)
Is it not out of 12 because normal races go up to 11, but in ultra-running we need a harder scale?
How do you fuel your way around this length of race? I occasionally have an energy gel or something on a Marathon. Do you stop and eat something halfway? Or eat anything more substantial during the race?
Personally, I would stick to gels for the whole race. It depends how hard you are working really.
Eat whatever you can keep down, test your nutrition on your long runs to see what works for you, personally I work on a shot blok/gel mix and then whatever takes my fancy at each aid station
Haribo, mainly...
No stopping for pasties half way round then? Shame.
I carry (and consume) Kendal mint cake, fig rolls and malt loaf on my long runs. Really enjoyed savory stuff such as cheese wraps on NDW50 last year and I've started eating some sandwiches, pasties etc. on some of my long runs (e.g. sandwich on recent recce of the second half of Thames Trot 50). Should be a variety of edibles available along SDW50, at the aid stations.
All of my favourite things. Thanks!
I'm in, I've entered. Gulp!
I've entered this too. Will (probably) be my first ultra. Up to 37M in training and looking forward to it!
Also entered NDW50 and NDW100.
Latter. Yeah, probably won't do any further other than running my age (41) on my birthday next month. Main goal is the NDW100 so the 50s will be building me up to that.
The answer would have been the former had it been asked of me. Ahh well, plenty of time to increase the distance ahead of April- starting with a planned run from Southease to Eastbourne on Saturday along the route...
I've just entered this one.
Anyone know of any decent accomodation near the start?
Tent
I'm a diva.
You could try Findon. It's a drive from the race start but only 5 minutes.
Otherwise you can get something on the seafront in Worthing, easy tofnd on theinternet angling from a guest house to a 4 star.
If you need any more local knowledge, I'll try and be more Elpinm next time.
Lirish - Pantman is "rather good" btw when he gets his mojo together. I suspect he will be in the top 5 and I won't be surprised if he wins it.....
Cheers Snap. I'll look into it. Thanks for the help.