I'm not sure yet. Since I'm not an official member yet, I don't get the email...my buddy just forwards it a few days before. I'll be sure to pass it along when I get it that week though.

Woot, great 12 hours of running:

Last night did 10 on the road at 7:38 pace.
This morning did 12 on the trail with 2100ft of vert at a 9:06 pace.

Nice!! VERT, VERT, VERT!!
I might be doing a fat ass 50k on sunday...you know you've made it in the local running community when you get invited to a fat ass race.

Aaaah! Nice works all around!

I was at my "local" running shop (lol Breckenridge, also the country's highest at 9,600') on Tuesday and they told me about a "running festival" in nearby Frisco in June. It's for the summer solstice and it sounds awesome - free camping and yoga and music and a 54 mile run. No registration fees. I asked if the race was a fatass event and they said they'll have four aid stations so even better

http://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=27195

I'm racing two weeks before this so no 54 miler but I may check it out and run the first 18 or something

And speaking of vert, a week from this Sunday my workout is basically "all the vert you can do in three hours"

AND last thing(s) - bought a pair of Pearl Izumi N2s so Chris and I are twinsies. Also bought some Salty Caramel Gu but haven't tried it yet. Looking forward to tasting greatness!

Consistency is so much thinner than gu, much easier to get down for me.

I just gagged a little.

Have been trying to get back on the horse after a really horrid work and travel schedule from August through December made consistent training difficult. We bought a treadmill (what dat bonus from all dem hours working do) and been getting up early to run a few times per week. Now that the temps have been over freezing for a few days and the risk of me breaking a hip on an icy spot is reduced, I should be able to get some outdoor runs in. (After I spend this weekend in New Orleans eating and drinking myself silly for my birthday).

Picked up some new running shoes - Adidas something or other that feel pretty good so far. I have liked but not totally loved my Newtons.

Am comfortably hanging out around 8:40 per mile for three to five miles. Looking to improve that and drop about twenty pounds as well.

Will do a five miler on St. Patty's day and wife has talked me into the Disney marathon next January. Thinking about the Aspen Valley Half in July.

I'm doing some research into Javelina Jundred actually. Doesn't seem to have a lot of elevation. Probably kinda hot, so training in FL is good. It is multiple loops with an average 30 hour cutoff. The question is do I want to run all year long again? Last year training for the 50k I noticed my body disliked runs over 15 miles, meaning I'd hurt from those runs. And the runs every single weekend that are 4 hours long get rough. Not as if I have a life anyway.

You're off to a good start man - congrats! The more you stick with it the easier it is to stick with it haha eventually it becomes difficult to not get that run in. #addiction

Once I get in a rhythm I mostly enjoy it. But I will say I'm not crazy about training for a full marathon again. It takes something that I find fun in smaller doses and turns it into work. Half marathon is a great distance and fun to train for. I can't really say the same about three plus hour training runs.

The other thing is that running consecutive days doesn't always agree with my knees. I found a three day per week training plan that should work for the last few months leading up to the marathon. I just need to be fitter going into that training than I was for my first marathon.

I'm telling you man, after running with that guy John and talking about his training I have been focusing on quality over quantity and its been huge.
On my 12 miler yesterday there is this section thats 1.5 miles with just under 1000 feet of vert, my previous best was 18:32 and I did it in 16:52, and this was the day after a tough 18 miler. I am already at 58,000 feet of vert for the year vs 187,000 for all of last year.
Alot of these elite guys arent putting in crazy miles by pro running standards but they are racking up 20K+ of vert.

Are you sure you want to sign up for a 100 miler later this same year? I *totally* understand the drive to go out and sign up for big things, but you've run one 50K and are having some pain with runs over 15 miles? It seems like signing up for a 100 mile race in 8 months would be a very painful and expensive proposition. Here's a 50K/50 Miler in NC in October

http://usnwc.org/wc-50-2/

You could make a road trip out of it, work your way up in mileage and then look at longer stuff for 2015 (in which case you could continue your training going into the October race through the winter and be in great shape next year).

Again, not trying to dissuade you but something to ask yourself for sure. There will always be other races and others years to run them - no need to risk injury by trying to do too much too soon.