A week before Cayuga, and 4 weeks before Manitou, hill training was needed. So I braced my self, my legs and my trail beast Minimus 110, headed up to Delaware Water Gap NJ, and tested myself against Mt Tammany rough terrain. My plan was to run it as many times as my legs could do.
This was my 3rd time I ran a hill repeat training here. It felt this time was harder than when I ran it in the winter with snow covering the trail. Probably without snow, the rocks became steeper on the uphill, and the losing rock became harder to run it on the downhill. But still it was such a scenic run. The trees, the running streams, and the scenic landscape, were always entertaining my mind and content my heart. At the end, I was only able to do 4 loops. I was drained but I was a happy kid again. Though I felt my ankles strength had not been 100% recovered, but I could run at almost normal speed, that really made my day.
Trail Running
Dirty German 50K 2014 – Lets Get Dirty
Distance. : 50km
Finish Time : 4:51:18
Pace: 9:24
Rank : #28 (overall)
Lap 1 : 2:13:11
Photo by Uber Endurance Sports
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This was the second time for me running this race. The race organization, Uber Endurance Sports, always has the best fun races. Their races are always well-marked, they always have an all out aid station provision and very well-organized.
Last year, I broke my 50k PR in this race. Thank you to Keila, whom I was tailing for the first 25k loop. But I just couldn’t keep up with her beast mode pace, and I ended up out of gas by mile 20.
But this year, my plan was using this fun run race as my long run training for upcoming Cayuga 50 miles. I won’t be racing like a crazy monkey, on the other hand, I would try a few new running strategy. After my running drama in Bear Mountain, 2 weeks earlier, I had evaluated my race, overview what went wrong, what did I do wrong, what could I do better, and also to test my brand new recovered left ankle.
Bear Mountain Love and Hate #5 – Hills For BBQ : Sun, 11 May 2014 08:54:37
One week after the Bear Mountain 50 miles, my left ankle was still swollen. But I had work to be done for upcoming Cayuga and Manitou.
So four of us went up to the Bear Mountain ski slope to do some hill repeat. Those crazy girls were doing the 3 miles warming up trail loop and followed by hill repeat run. For me and my whimp ankles, we were just doing 3 miles on the road and hike repeat.
The best part was, we were doing barbecue after the work out, to bring back the calories. Hills and burgers were the right way to close my week.
2014 TNF Bear Mountain 50 Miles Challenge – Giving up is easy, finishing up is the challenge
Distance. : 50 miles
Finish Time : 11:26:57
Pace: 13:45
| Interval | Time of Day | Chip Time | Chip Pace | Gun Time | Gun Pace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 5:01:28AM | ||||
| 3.9 Miles | 5:42:06AM | 00:40:39 | 10:26 min/mi | 00:40:47 | 10:28 min/mi |
| 13.6 Miles | 7:33:51AM | 02:32:23 | 11:13 min/mi | 02:32:32 | 11:13 min/mi |
| 40.2 Miles | 1:47:46PM | 08:46:19 | – | – | – |
| 44.6 Miles | 3:09:17PM | 10:07:50 | 13:38 min/mi | 10:07:58 | 13:38 min/mi |
| Finish | 4:28:24PM | 11:26:57 | 13:45 min/mi | 11:27:05 | 13:45 min/mi |
Bear Mountain Love and Hate #4 – Hills For Breakfast : Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:00:00
One week away from Bear Mountain 50 miles and I have been tapering my ankle from injury that I earned from Traprock 50K last week. My legs and soul became restless, and I could not resist to visit my beloved Bear Mountain. And also an excuse to try my brand new (used) MonkeyCart.
So the idea was to train my legs strength and cardio with hills repeats, but at the same time I wanted to avoid technical hill that I would not twisted my ankle much. From our previous run in Bear Mountain, Maria and I found this nice twins ski slope by the side of Silver Mine Lake. So here we were at 8am on Sunday morning, tried to closed the week in the right way.
The twins
Silver Mine Lake (I should make a painting of this)
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