Month: May 2020

Backyard Ultra 50 Miler

May 18, 2020 / everyultraday

4.1 Miles per hour for 12 hours! May 9th 2020

After running 60 some odd laps around an 800 meter loop a week earlier my legs didn’t feel awful, I felt fresh and the longing for miles had returned. I don’t really have a strategy for the Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee, but I don’t really want to play catch up in August either, so I decided to join some friends for a Backyard Ultra challenge this past Saturday. At that point I was about 50 miles into the GVRAT with around 600 to go. I haven’t been particularly concerned about finishing because if push comes to shove I’ll just cram a lot of miles in a single week.

Finding Motivation

May 15, 2020 / everyultraday

May 2nd, 2020 – Natcher 50K

Everyone responds to situations differently and for me the near total shutdown of society beginning in March and extending to the present has unfortunately sapped me of my motivation to go run. The very first weekend I had a half marathon that was cancelled and so I went and ran with some friends and got a solid PR at 132:36 or thereabouts. In doing this I managed to tweak my hamstring, which I believe is suffering from some sort of tendonitis, but at least for a little while longer I won’t be able to be seen about it.