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Ultra-training and illness during training.
Ian Morris2
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Before I start I know this is all about personal preference and the only person who can judge this is me but I would be interested to know of anyone's views on my current scenario.
Is a six week taper for a 45 miler due to illness too much (allowing that I am now over the worst of it) and the event is now in two weeks time? I have booked onto the country to capital ultra in two weeks and I think I just need someone to say just toughen up and go for it! People I have to talked to about it think running 45 miles is so stupid illness shouldn't come into it anyway.
Despite never doing this distance before I have completed a thirty mile event in the last two months and also covered the 45 miles in two halves over the weekend at the beginning of December- what do people thin? Does the fitness stay in your legs for six weeks. Its not like I haven't run at all in that time- just not further than 13 miles.
Any views would be most welcome.
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Only issue could be have you recovered fully from your illness? If you're well again and back running now, shorter distances obviously, then you should be fine for your event. You might not meet your original expectations re race time, depending what your illness was, but you should still have a good race.
Thanks Shades, very much appreciate that.
Ian
When i finished I was thinking that distance was enough but now i am looking at the East Devon Round or the flat 50, cue many posts about my worry with Map reading for the first and nervousnous about pacing 50 miles for the flat!
One thing i did benefit from on the C2C was reading somewhere about letting yourself walk the first 0.20 of every mile after a set distance- I did after 31 miles or so. I still walk other bits and pieces but having a goal every mile really helped.
http://www.teignbridgetrotters.co.uk/our-races/dartmoor-discovery
Walking is an important part of ultras
Hi, I am based just outside of Frome Debra. Imber's coming up in a month.
Shades- I am starting to realise that. I have only done 3 routes further than a marathon and none of them were as hard as the road marathons I have done and I am sure that is down to the walking I do in them. Somewhere inside me feels like I have failed if I walk on a Road marathon even though I am convinced my time would improve if I did.
Come and do DD, you'll have to walk some of it as there are a couple of huge hills and lots of other less severe hills too.
I will try, it does look a nice event. Wonderful part of the world as well. I used to spend a lot of time kayaking on Dartmoor so have some happy memories so it would be nice to come back.
http://www.teignbridgetrotters.co.uk/our-races/dartmoor-discovery/general-info
I'm a slow runner and with the hills making the marathon cut off is a challenge for me, I missed the cut off by 3 minutes in 2016( they are strict) but got through fairly comfortably in 2017. I was ill last year so didn't make the start line.
As of yesterday 17 places left....