I aim to complete this remarkable distance without setting any time goal in mind. After all, it is intended as a personal achievement (and my personal record) if I can complete the full distance.
The preparation for my maiden ultra-marathon has, thus far, been a torturous journey. Juggling between training time in addition to my routine work and family life have been extremely difficult. For instance, in many training sessions, i have to wake up at 2 ~ 3 am to commence my runs. Instead of running long distances to prepare myself, i choose to run several back-to-back distances to condition my legs.
My longest training distance clocked this month was 41km (on 23 August). I had initially targeted to complete 50km in this training session but gave up at the 41 km mark as I was mentally sleepy (as i started my training at 1:30am) and physically ill-prepared for it (ahem...didn't clear my bowel system; didn't carbo-load; only equipped myself with water bag and one pack of energy chew for the entire distance).
Now that I have less than 3 weeks before the actual race, I will have to concentrate on core strengthening and maintenance / conditioning runs.
I am crossing my fingers that these training sessions would adequately prepare my body for the actual day.
I most welcome any runners who'd experienced an ultra run to share with me better methods to prepare myself for this maiden attempt. Many thanks in advance.
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