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12-29-2007, 02:33 AM
I decided about a month before my first ultra that I was going to run it. I'd been training for 5k/10k and would have transitioned to marathon training soon anyway. It was a 50k mountain race through a 13,000 acre forest - I had a blast.
Basically, my training was to just start my marathon training early and then pretty much train through. I didn't bother to taper (I did take it easy a few days before hand) and then did a reverse taper for about 3 weeks following the race, where I ran another 5k. I failed to run the pace I wanted (16:05 or sub-16:00) but I did run a 1 second season PR (16:37).
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