This is a milestone in my training as I ran for longer than an hour today ! I know this sounds like nothing in comparison to the 15hrs that I’m aiming to do the Ultra Trail CCC in but it’s still a good feeling to have got past this milestone.
Of course the time isn’t the only important thing, and distance wise it was 8.1Km and Ascent wise I did 450m of ascent / descent, so it is getting close to a tenth the total distance and ascent that I am going to have to do (90km, 5000m of Ascent).
I’m trying to match my training runs to the sort of terrain that I’ll encounter on the Ultra, as I’ve always believed that the best training is doing the thing you are training for! So far this is what I’ve been doing. It’s definitely tough going - running up these hills is not easy ! But then this is exactly what I’m going to have to do, so pain now is pain saved later.
Since I’ve missed a lot of my early training (Often the worst bit) as I started this blog a little late, I’ll give a recap in a later post.
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