Run the Coast
Dec. 13th, 2018 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenAt some point I probably need to settle on one goal or another. I keep coming across things I want to do, and there's honestly only so much time and so much training. I've thought for a while now that I'd like to tackle a distance beyond the marathon - an ultra. Technically anything over twenty-six miles and three-hundred fifty two yards is an ultra - but I often see 50k, 75 milers, and 100 milers. A 50k is about 31 miles so that seems like a good place to start, and what got me thinking about it is there's a really great ultra with all three distances held almost literally in my backyard - the Daytona 100.
It starts up in one of the north Jax beach neighborhoods and follows the coast through St. Auggie to (wait for it) Daytona. I'm not saying I'm signing up for 2019, but it's on my radar as an "at some point" race. But I also still have my eye on getting into the Tokyo Marathon, and improving my marathon time will only help. I know entry is mostly by lottery but it can't hurt to have a good finishing time.
I'm sort of procrastinating on my yoga this afternoon. Honestly I need to go hit the mat for a while - I've scheduled myself a hip and leg yin flow, followed by a more active hip opening sequence. I have tomorrow off from running, then a twelve and thirteen milers this weekend.
It doesn't help that my lazy cats are all sprawled around asleep, which is what I'd like to be doing right now, LOL.
It starts up in one of the north Jax beach neighborhoods and follows the coast through St. Auggie to (wait for it) Daytona. I'm not saying I'm signing up for 2019, but it's on my radar as an "at some point" race. But I also still have my eye on getting into the Tokyo Marathon, and improving my marathon time will only help. I know entry is mostly by lottery but it can't hurt to have a good finishing time.
I'm sort of procrastinating on my yoga this afternoon. Honestly I need to go hit the mat for a while - I've scheduled myself a hip and leg yin flow, followed by a more active hip opening sequence. I have tomorrow off from running, then a twelve and thirteen milers this weekend.
It doesn't help that my lazy cats are all sprawled around asleep, which is what I'd like to be doing right now, LOL.
