#24 – 50 runs in 100 days – Just run edition<\/p>\n
Today I woke up at 3.30 am and WHY did I do that? Because it was time for Hallands ultra 50K in Halmstad and I would be picked up at 5.20 am<\/p>\n
So breakfast and pack the last things and then it was time to get down to the ride<\/p>\n
Mats Bergenhorn drove us to Ekeby where we switched car to Jim’s and then Thom Leiding was also in the car.<\/p>\n
We got to the parking lot around 7 so we had time to stretch, get into the woods and pee and talk to some other ultra Runners and runners that would run their first ultra race today.<\/p>\n
We started 10 min later so everybody could get to the toilet.<\/p>\n
Today we had to wear a chip around our fingers. They had changed the route a bit so we ran in a loop and then got back to where we started and then continued on the regular route.<\/p>\n
Perfect weather and what was different was that I was not one of the last persons, ahd company most of the way to Halmstad<\/p>\n
The route was changed a couple of time more during the day.<\/p>\n
My goal this year was to finish in 7h but to be honest I wanted to finish under 7h.<\/p>\n
Someone had a peptalk with me yesterday and was sure that I would finish with 7h but felt that I am a much faster runner today and just ran faster this time. I guess I listened.<\/p>\n
At around 25K I started to get tired in my right calf but ran til I coulnd’t run anymore and started Walking and wet my hair. Something I learned last year was to never stretch if you have tired legs, just start to walk for a short time and start running again and it works.<\/p>\n
I got tricked, because before we got to the fuel station when it was 13K left we were rerouted due to the change this year, all of a sudden I felt familiar and realized that I was running the last 1K Before the finish line and started to wonder if I had run wrong (I knew that I had followed the route).<\/p>\n
When it was 13K left the time was 5.22 and it felt that I could even finish under 7h even if I knew that it would be some walking but it couldn’t take 2h.<\/p>\n
We have to ”run” up stairs and I walked backwards and then you have a nice view before you continue.<\/p>\n
At the last fuel station the running coach that I ran with (she was suppose to be last) so I talked to her and she said that it goes much better this year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I had problems at the end running down with my tired calf walked and walked uphills and ran the rest and finally I knew that it wasn’t much left and told myself that I would run and not stop til I ran through the finish line.<\/p>\n
This year I finished with 6.40.50, 40 min faster than last year. I am so proud of myself.<\/p>\n
Changed and then had a hamburger, a non alcoholic beer and then got a ride down to the parking lot<\/p>\n This is how my feet was afterwards under my socks<\/p>\n Distance: 50K, time: 6.40.50h, average heart rate: 143, average pace: 7.21 min\/k, max pace: 5.24 min\/k, cadence: 164, VO2 Max: 28ml\/kg\/min<\/p>\n![\"IMG_3758_160611\"](\"http:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3758_160611.jpg\")
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