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I can’t believe I didn’t write up a summary after I finished the ultra. That was ages ago! Anyway, the race was fantastic. I started out last and ended up in the middle of the pack which thrilled me. My partner was running the 80 km event. He was trying to figure out what happened to me because when he was finishing, he kept looking at me thinking “damn she looks fresh”. He figured I’d either dropped out or something else had happened. Nope! I’d finished so fast that my official race photographer missed the finish! The fastest I thought I could finish was in 6hrs but I was under that by a couple of minutes and I’m so damn proud I could cry.

Today, I ran the half marathon our city was hosting. It was really just a training run in preparation for the ultra. I ran the first half really easy – didn’t sweat, didn’t breath hard. Then, the back half I ran more aggressively. I negative split the race (running jargon for the last half was faster than the first half) and got a personal best half marathon time!

I’m ready for the ultra. :)

Well, it is now 3 weeks to go. This is traditionally when we all go taper nutty. I’m thinking this may be the first taper I acutally do that I’m not nutty about. I’m pretty tired from all the training. It has been a long winter. LOTS and LOTS of 5:30 am workouts. Many a Saturday run started by 7 am… So, we’ll see what the 3 weeks of taper brings.