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Entered two more races for 2019, a 65K trail/hill ultra in
February and a 43 mile trail ultra in August.
Entered two more races for 2019, a 65K trail/hill ultra in
February and a 43 mile trail ultra in August.
I'm not sure what my situation will be next year, so I'm leery about signing up to anything. I sort of want to put into the LT100 lottery, just to have a goal to point at.
rms
Entered two more races for 2019, a 65K trail/hill ultra in
February and a 43 mile trail ultra in August.
I'm not sure what my situation will be next year, so I'm leery about signing up to anything. I sort of want to put into the LT100 lottery,
just to have a goal to point at.
rms
On 03/12/18 18:30, rms wrote:
.Entered two more races for 2019, a 65K trail/hill ultra in
February and a 43 mile trail ultra in August.
I'm not sure what my situation will be next year, so I'm leery about
signing up to anything. I sort of want to put into the LT100 lottery,
just to have a goal to point at.
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Its a good race, well worth doing, but fairly hard in my opinion for the number of hours to finish in, so I wouldn't recommend it as a first
hundred. In any case there are many other hundreds that don't have a
lottery, though possibly not having as much razzmatazz as Leadville.
LT100 lottery,My memories may help to motivate you.
LT100 lottery,My memories may help to motivate you.
haha! Very nice, Ken. I actually have completed 2 100s in the
past, the last RRR a few years back, and have started Lt100 once. I carefully read and reread a popular internet guide to finishing it --
which especially emphasized constant eating -- and got to the ~40mile
mark (the last aidstation before the river crossing and big climbs) at
around 9.5hrs, about 1hr under the cutoff, and was actually feeling very good. But I had a mental failure here, and dropped out of fear that -- having brought no crew -- if I did miss a cutoff later on I'd be
stranded on the course with no way back. A mite irrational I know, and
I'm still disappointed in myself for that. Besides that, I was very
pleased with my experience there; as you know Lifetime got all kinds of
bad press in previous years by overexpanding the field, with litter &
traffic etc issues. I saw none of that in my race, and they'd done a
great job cleaning their act up. The weather (this was a couple years
ago) was ideal, cool&no rain, so yeah I blew a perfect chance for a
finish :)
rms
ken <ken@doombox.net> Wrote in message:
On 03/12/18 18:30, rms wrote:
.Entered two more races for 2019, a 65K trail/hill ultra in
February and a 43 mile trail ultra in August.
I'm not sure what my situation will be next year, so I'm leery about >>> signing up to anything. I sort of want to put into the LT100 lottery,
just to have a goal to point at.
<Snip>
Its a good race, well worth doing, but fairly hard in my opinion for the
number of hours to finish in, so I wouldn't recommend it as a first
hundred. In any case there are many other hundreds that don't have a
lottery, though possibly not having as much razzmatazz as Leadville.
Thanks for that Ken. Enjoyed your account.
Tim
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