Who's doin' the Dirty Girls?

[West Grey Runner]

Mega Mo…100 miler, no problem, Just think of DG as a Hurt training Run.

[hezzy]

FYI my race report is here:

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[ActiveGEJ]

What a great event. I loved this trail. It had more hills than I expected, but I'm fine on hills and had fun. This was my first attempt at anything over 50 miles, I signed up for 24hrs not knowing what to expect. I had a blast meeting so many people. Queenga, Viking and BJH were awesome at the 5k station. Man that grilled cheese hit the spot! Late in the night, the noodles became my favourite. I met West Grey at the 5k station, can't even remember when that was, it was still light out I think. I brought a lot of my own food, but ended up bringing most of it home.

I remember feeling a little tired after 4hrs and thinking I've still got 20hrs to go! What a weird feeling. Early in the race, it's easy to distract yourself chatting with so many different people. By about 5pm the trails were becoming sparse of people, I whipped out the Ipod for company. After 8pm, I had a pacer join me for the night. She's done her share of 100 milers so her tips and help were fantastic, not to mention the company! She knew the course after 1 loop, which was good because she stopped me from countless wrong turns in the dark! She also kept on top of my hydration and fuel, which was great. I really didn't have to do much, except run! I was curious to see how I'd feel by the middle of the night, but I was feeling ok, much better than I expected. Eventually feet were throbbing, but blisters weren't bad. I stopped at 23hrs 18min. I considered trying to squeeze in another 2.5k, but my pace had slowed so much at this point I called it a day. Finished at 130km, 1st in my age group which totally caught me off guard (a lot of people way faster than me stopped at 120k). This was 50k farther and almost 14hrs longer than I've gone before, so I was happy.

Now for the biggest surprise of my night: A few weeks ago, just for the hell of it I threw my name in the lottery for HURT 100 in Hawaii (I really should stay away from the computer). They did the draw Sat evening, after the race I checked my phone and had an email from HURT and....yup, I somehow got in! Little problem, I've never actually done a 100 miler, not to mention one of the toughest ones! Then again, a year ago I'd never done a trail race, let alone 24hrs. I talked to Charlotte after the race, she's done it 4 times and she knew I got in while I was still running but didn't say anything! She offered all sorts of tips and gave me some quick horror stories already. I need to talk to some people and make a decision very soon. 5 months away? I guess I should probably do Haliburton then....

Nice to meet so many great people, I'll see a lot of you at ITT!

Take care,

Mo

You did great Mega Mo! I wasn't even sure where you were at because after awhile, I decided to stop tracking where people were in relation to me and do my own thing. I just hope my off-key wake-my-arse-up-and-run singing didn't startle you... LOL!

Maybe you should do the Haliburton 100M instead of the 50M!

[Mega Mo]

It's been decided. He goes.
I see Haliburton on the horizon... or some other 100 miler in Sept, Oct or Nov.
Lucky you!

Congrats on hammering out 130k on that course! It was great to meet you, MegaMo. See you at ITT and pretty much all the fall races. You gotta get the training in...

Well, looks like Queenga has decided for me, so I guess I have to go! My kids also said they want me to do it, so I have no choice now, I'm in (I showed them some youtube videos of HURT, but they still want me to do it!). The toughest part for me (other than a massive lack of experience) is finding the time to get in the necessary amount of training. I'll make it work though. Lots of hill training coming up! Before this, my plan was to do Sulpher next spring as my first 100, so I'll just tweak that a little and do Haliburton in 4 weeks. I'll do ITT this weekend, then get some runs in before tapering for Haliburton, so I guess my HURT training really won't get rolling until after Hali, that will leave me 4 months to punish myself. Looking forward to it!

Mo

[ultraslacker]

Before this, my plan was to do Sulpher next spring as my first 100, so I'll just tweak that a little and do Haliburton in 4 weeks.

This is one of my favourite things about ultra runners! lol

[UltraQueenga]

Before this, my plan was to do Sulpher next spring as my first 100, so I'll just tweak that a little and do Haliburton in 4 weeks.

This is one of my favourite things about ultra runners! lol

We're so weak and give in so easily to crazy grand races.

[ultraslacker]

Before this, my plan was to do Sulpher next spring as my first 100, so I'll just tweak that a little and do Haliburton in 4 weeks.

This is one of my favourite things about ultra runners! lol

We're so weak and give in so easily to crazy grand races. :D

lol it was more the "why take 6 months to prep for something when I could run it 4 weeks from now instead?!"

[UltraQueenga]

Yeah, logic often eludes the ultra realm...

[Mega Mo]

Before this, my plan was to do Sulpher next spring as my first 100, so I'll just tweak that a little and do Haliburton in 4 weeks.

This is one of my favourite things about ultra runners! lol

lol it was more the "why take 6 months to prep for something when I could run it 4 weeks from now instead?!"

"This is either going to be rrrrrealy good, or rrrrrrealy bad...."- Sid the Sloth, Ice Age 2