Training Log Archive: DJKennedy

Event: Beast of Burden
 

First fifty miles of Winter Beast of Burden...splitting the enty so I can account for miles run/shoes. Switched to dry shoes after 50 miles.

Last 50 miles of Winter Beast of Burden. Total time 23:36:46. 4th overall, will update the other information later.

Course was very difficult, loose packed snow, and the wind for a good part of the day kept drifting in any packed down path that had formed, so we had to keep breaking a new trail in drifted snow. Cold, wet feet for the entire race, which gave me major blisters on the top of both feet and around my toes. I may have gotten slight frostbite, judging from some pictures I've seen online, hard to tell.

Body temperature was not an issue, the layers I chose (long sleeve compression shirt, long sleeve tech shirt, NRC tech jacket, and for 1 loop I added a long sleeve cotton shirt) worked fine, I was actually a little warm at times. Wore balclava and wool hat, cotton jersey gloves, white cotton gloves, and tech mittens (on and off throughout).

Overall, very happy to get the finish. I think I was a little undertrained, and faced more mental struggles than any other ultra to date, but that's what I was looking for!!

Slept very solid last night.

No more running till the weekend.

33 deg. Started at 3:52 am; Honesdale loop; Snowing, at least 2 inches on roads.

Very nice run, steady pace, but didn't feel like I was pushing it at all. Stopped to talk with an older gentleman shovelling his driveway on Brook road, I think he just wanted to complain to someone about the weather.

Too tired to run...taking it easy this week, kind of like the whole month of January.