Training Update: All Phases Complete, Race Tomorrow

One last check-in just to say that things went pretty well with my training to run a 24-hour race. A few hiccups but that is bound to happen over many months of training. My longest run was 39 miles. My longest week was 87 miles. That was the only week I broke 80. Steady state training went quite well...was able to average 7:30 min/mile for extended periods with a HR in the mid 150s.

Tomorrow is going to be very hot and humid with the potential for thunderstorms. I'm not particularly good in the heat, so I'm going to have to be cautious. I'm going to try and go slow from the start (by slow, I mean 11-12 min/mile) and try to survive the daytime heat and get to the evening hours with something still left in the tank.

I'll cover my fueling and heat mitigation strategies in the race report to follow.

Thanks for following my story. Tomorrow could be a very interesting day if everything comes together. Good, bad, or ugly, I'll follow eventually with a report. Kind of funny that my main concerns going into this race do not include anything to do with my surgically repaired right knee. I guess that is a good thing. Let's see what happens.