Did the inaugural Tread 6 Hour Trail Race at Mansfield
yesterday. Meet Grant at 07:30 at Tims in Durham for a
big breakfast … a good start to any long
run. We arrived at the race an hour before the 10:00 am start and picked
up a rather disappointing race kit containing nothing but a Bib and Chip. There were a couple of familiar OUS faces but
most were new. The weather was less than
perfect being cold around 3-4C with a
really strong wind and we were expecting snow.
The first couple of loops were OK . I wasn't settling into a thermal
happy place and was either too hot or too cold.
The course is really rolling , its variability as well as the forever changing
weather made it tough to get comfortable.
I was wearing one layer , Mizuno
Breathe Thermal , Tights , Compression
Cap and Gloves. Third loop I was having allot of lower back pain
and the top right quad was really aching.
I was longing for it to be a bit
warmer but the wind , ice pellets , snow was really persistent. I wasn't moving very fast and told Grant to
go ahead. The fourth loop was my slowest
of the day but I managed to hang in there and started to move a little
faster. Heading out on the 4th
loop 2 hours remained and I wasn't noticing my back or right quad pain any
longer. The endorphin's were really
starting to kick in and I had a really good “Runners High” going on. I was no longer noticing the cold , snow,
ice pellets or wind that wanted to blow right through me. My last loop was the fastest of the entire
day and I felt really good. Didn't do
any nutrition or electrolytes only took a bit of water from my UltraSpire
Pack. So I finished feeling really really hungry. They had nothing other than Water and Heed
on the course…. Luckily I had some Gels with me! Logged 6 loops for a total of 39km in just
under 6 hours. Not having anything on the
course made me rather famished so I assumed that there would be some sort of
something afterwards but I was wrong…not even so much as a water bottle!
Love the course but the organizers get failing grades for swag, aide station and no food after. It was a $60.00 registration and should have been more like $30.00 to pay
for the nothing that I got! On a positive note it was good practice burning
body mass vs Glycogen… only took in 4 Gels in 6 hours. I figure there was at least a 1000 calorie
deficit.
Video to follow!
Splits…
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9
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113
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Ronald Irwin
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6
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5:56:20
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59:23
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57:51
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55:58
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1:00:15
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1:04:09
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1:01:24
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56:43
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