Susan Donnelly Ultramarathon Trail Runner. Motivational Speaker. http://www.susanruns100s.com
Promise Land 50k and The Killer Hill Date : April 27, 2009
The past several weeks’ races – 3 Days of Syllamo (93 miles total) followed by two 100-milers at Umstead and Zumbro – have been all about survival. Run smart, pace conservatively, then recover as fast as you can using every trick in the book and be ready to toe the next starting line before most people even think about signing up for their next race.
Talking with Caroline at the start.
That made Promise Land 50k all the more fun, though it took a few miles to shake the survival mentality. The race even started like a 100-miler, in the dark (5:40 a.m.) with headlamps, climbing almost 3 miles uphill (in suspiciously warm temps for early dawn). The course outside Lynchburg, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Picture if you can a kind of a loopy lollipop with a very short stick.
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