Day 3,861 —Sleeping in = + 4 Recovery! —

I was able to sleep in today! I didn’t get up until almost 6 a.m. It was truly spectacular. I would have run earlier, but I was completing work for most of the morning, which meant I was writing reports. Maybe sitting around and writing reports isn't so bad.

I am not sure how much I can run this weekend, but it will not be a lot. I could run a lot over Thanksgiving, but I don’t have any big plans right now. Part of me thinks I should sign up for the 200-mile run I have been thinking about just to do it. I don’t know if I am getting bored with the 100-mile distance, it is just that I have been craving a different type of challenge. I wish I could do a different ultra every time, but logistically that is difficult to accomplish.

I was thinking about next year what I would want to do for each season and I don’t know. I don’t think I want to do the Ozark Foothills again even though it was a good time and a well-done race, but if I do the 200 it will be around the same time. However, I might go back to the Shawnee Hill. What a great time that was, and part of me wants to go back to the two 100s I haven’t finished. It might be small of me to care, but I am annoyed with myself every time I think about not finishing those races. Neither was especially challenging. 

I wonder what I should plan for my next big solo run adventure? I have homework to do over the Thanksgiving break, but part of me wants to do a crazy amount of running on maybe Monday and Tuesday of that week. It would be fun to do something I haven’t done before, possibly a self-supported trail 100? But I would end up doing a lot of the same stuff. Maybe I should do a 100 on the Katy Trail one way and end up at one of those small towns and have my wife pick me up there. I have never done 100 miles on the Katy Trail before. It would be difficult to have water access, but maybe some spigots stay on.