Day 4,428—Starting the Write-Up Now, and I Saw a Cat Where I Took This Picture—
Start time: 7:28 a.m. Weather: Low 60s, wind 1.3 mi/h, Humidity 83% I don’t know exactly why I haven’t been more motivated to write about the Mohican 100. Maybe I am disappointed I didn’t place better? I didn’t do terribly, but it wasn’t my best run. There was no major snafu, but a lot of small things didn’t work out as well as expected. Overall, things went well, but I just couldn’t move any faster on the last leg, which cost me at least an hour, but that’s pretty consistent with my recent 100-mile performances. My finishing time of 26:31:34 is almost exactly where it was for the Thunder Kiss 100 and the Ozark Trail 100. The Thunder Kiss 100 was my most recent performance, and I thought in most ways this race was very comparable. However, that race finished a little over 1 mile under 100 miles, whereas this race finished a little over 2 miles over 100 miles, so considering my last two miles were some of my slowest because I was running around 20-minute miles, which ...
