This is part of a series of posts regarding how the InaseRunning group prepares, plans, and trains to complete the 100 miles Ultramarathon Umstead 100: Journey to a 100. For all the ultrarunning series, here is Journey to 100 last week’s post, and for additional ideas, follow the link. Training for a 100

By this time of the training, things are starting most likely to be falling into place. There have been a few back-to-back semi-long runs that hopefully have provided you with good practice in many areas. By now, you should start knowing how it feels to run on tired legs. Perhaps by now, you are starting to find the fuel strategy that works and others that do not. The key from now until the race is consistency. The short runs, long runs, Fuel, and especially the recovery runs are going to start being very important in the preparation and training for the 100-mile event.

Assessment:

How would you categorize your progress? Are things improving? Are you learning new things to consider? Are you starting to get the confidence to a level that makes you comfortable being on your legs for hours? Are you feeling depleted after the runs, or do you feel that you could do one more or two more miles?

Planning:

There is still time to make adjustments. What are those things that are still making you uncomfortable? Plan to address those in the following weeks to increase your chances of success.

How is the plan going:

This week was another solid week. Jamie was back for the Saturday run, while Kaleel and Venu were tackling Honolulu Marathon on Sunday. Overall, the workweek mileage was decent; here are some of my highlights,

Monday: A Visit to the gym for a 1-mile warm-up and then some weight training.

Tuesday: Easy run

Wednesday: Morning Yoga followed by an “Easy run” with InsaneRunning group. Jamie pushed the pace during today’s run, or was it me?

Thursday: easy miles.

Friday: A visit to the gym for a 1-mile warm-up and then some weight training.

Saturday: Steady 26 miles at Umstead. The temperature was a tad close to the 70s by the end of the run.

Sunday: Excellent run today at the American Tobacco Trail, which is a very flat trail.

This week’s actual numbers:

Week 10	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
Plan	Stretches & Rolling	6	3	3	Stretches & Rolling	15	11	38
Actual	1 Gym	8	6	9	1 Gym	14	17	56

Next Week Plan:

Week 11	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
Plan	Stretches & Rolling	3	3	4	Stretches & Rolling	10	24	44