How to Run Your First Ultra-50K to 100 Miles

My goal is to help you successfully run your first 50K or your first 100 miler. Most people writing about how to run ultras are really fast, and that is great if “you” are really fast. If you are a middle-of-the-pack runner like me, what I write may be more applicable and useful. After all, we are on the trail a lot longer than those “fast” runners. Most of the Posts are available on my website "Run Your First Ultra" where the posts are easier to access by subject. (Link in the right column)

Friday, April 13, 2012

Update on Run for Kids Challenge

Package Pickup and Late Registration.

Package Pickup will be Friday Afternoon, May 4th at the Cedar pavilion at Oak Mountain State Park, from 4:00 PM until 6:30 PM. If no one is using the Dogwood Pavilion we will use it. Late registration will also be open Friday. I will send an email to registered runners before the race that can be printed and will allow you to enter the park (Friday afternoon only) without charge. Saturday, the park admission fee is $ 3.00 pre person. If you are coming out to register, tell the park attendant you are there to register for the race and they will probably let you in without charge. Preregister to be sure.

Also, the shirt order will go in on Wednesday of next week. If you want a shirt, register in the next four days. As I have mentioned before, I will not order extra shirts so only preregistered runners will get shirts.

Attached are aerial shots of the Dogwood Pavilion and the Cedar Pavilion. The Cedar will be the race start and finish location and the aid station.

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Most of the techniques I use and equipment I run with was suggested by other ultra runners. Unfortunately, trial and error is still necessary. My closet contains 6 pair of trail shoes, (two of which I like and wear), eight hydration belts or packs, numerous headlamps, flashlights, jackets, socks, gaiters, etc, that I don't like or don't work like I hoped. Maybe this blog can help you eliminate some of the errors. I hope you enjoy it and learn from my mistakes. I have started a website listing all of the posts form the blog. The posts are grouped according to subject (equipment, training, Hydration, etc) for easier access. It will be a work-in-process for a while. Check it out at Run Your First Ultra.

Running History

Mile: 4:33, Mesquite High School, Mesquite, Texas in 1968.

Continued running just because I liked to until 1978 when I moved to Mobile, Alabama and started road racing.

Fastest 5K: 15 something

Fastest 10K: 35:38 - Festival run, Pensacola, FL, 1980

Fastest Marathon: 2:47 - Dallas Whiterock Marathon, 1982

Fastest Ironman, 12:49, Panama City, FL,2009

Fastest 50K: 5:49, Dizzy Fifties, Huntsville, AL, 2007 and my first Ultra.

Fastest 50 mile: First Half of the Rocky Raccoon 100, 11 hours, 15 minutes. (This is not a good idea)

Fastest 100 mile, 27 hours, 27 minutes, Rocky Raccoon 100, Huntsville, Texas, 2012.