Eric Aditya

Manitou’s Revenge – The Revenge Is Brutally Sweet

June 21, 2014 1 Comment

Distance. : 54 miles
Finish Time : 17:13:32
Rank : #39 (overall)

Walking Into A Lion Den

This race was one of those races that made me worry for the whole year. Specially after I got injured and DNF at Cayuga 50 miles, 3 weeks prior to this race. This race at least 4 miles longer, about 4000 feet more on its elevation gain, definitely more technical, and it was probably the hardest ultra marathon race in Northeast. With 30 hours cut-off for 54 miles distance race, that was enough to keep my tail stay between my legs. On the top of it, I still feel not 100 percent recovered from all of my injuries.
So the whole time on the way to Windham, NY, I was so antsy and nervous. Thanks to the almighty that Maria, my crew master, was there and we spent most of our time go through the race detail. Kept my mind occupied. Yet, later on that night, I wasn’t able to sleep until the last hour.

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Bear Mountain Love and Hate #7 – Hill Repeats : Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:29:26

June 15, 2014

A week before my Manitou Revenge race. I came back to my beloved twins ski slope hills by the Silvermine Lake at Bear Mountain. It was so amazing how green was the vegetation now compare to a few weeks ago.
This time, I was training on how to run or hike up the hills in moderate pace. I wanted to work it up yet not pushing my body too much, so that I would not be drained at the end of the running. Also I wanted to train on my downhill run, where I should be running lightly by using the gravity, and at the same time I would not trash my legs and energy.

At the end of the day, it was a good day. I managed to run /hike 6 sets, and I found my good pace that I could use on my race next week.

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Bear Mountain Love and Hate #6 – Night Run : Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:04:26

June 13, 2014

A week after Manitou pre-race night run, I felt that I needed to train my night vision capability. So Chang and I planned to do a night run on Friday night after work. That day, it had been raining all day, and we had an all out thunderstorm the whole afternoon. It was a full package of pouring rain, lighting and thunder overlapping one after another. But by 7:30 pm it died down. So we decided that the night run was on.
We started to run by 10 pm. It was a pitch dark, but the sky was decorated by a full golden moon with starry stars around it. It was slippery, water on the trail or more like we were running on a stream, and we got fogs in some places. Also I heard an animal growling that sounded like a bear, and better yet a half mile away from the parking lot at the end of the run, there were a pair of eyes that was following us for a few minutes. But it was a good run and we were all come back alive.

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