Day 4,380—Back to Normal—

 

    This week has been just as crazy as last week, minus the violent sickness, with less than 48 hours until a race, so that’s good, and today I felt surprisingly better. I noticed my run started out slow, but I was strictly focused on form for the first mile, which I think I want to keep doing. I need to go back to basics, like I did when I first started running ultra distances: focus on feeling good while I am running, take frequent breaks, drink plenty of water, and keep my big toe hitting the ground and my feet underneath me. I need to float over the ground silently, and it is not like I have forgotten all about it but I have been focused on so many other things during my running but I have to admit doing 6 races where I ran at least 100 miles last year was a lot, possibly too much, so maybe doing 6 this year isn’t a good idea but I don’t like a big gap between races either. 

     This year, I will have a race at the end of October and then another race in January, so that will end up being as much as 12 weeks between races, and I don’t like that. I don’t think I have thought about it too much, but I also have a big gap between July and October, which will also be close to two 12-week periods. I am thinking now that I want to avoid doing any October races if I can. I learned about a great race in Nevada in November from Holly, whom I met at the race, but I don’t know if I can run it this year or if I will have to wait until next year. I could look at considering some smaller races, but I don’t know. I am still thinking. Right now, it has been either 4 or 5 weeks since the Thuner Kiss 100, and I want to say I am ready for a race, but I was thinking fondly of the two I have coming up in May, so I like the distances between the races to be between 6 and 10 weeks. I am already thinking about putting my calendar together for next year. I did sign up for the wait list for the Rabbit Run 100 in Colorado. If that happens this year, great; if not, I'll do it later. That’s one in September, which makes me not want to sign up for anything around then, just in case. I both love and hate being on a waitlist for a run.