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EASY Neuces-area AM trail run with Queen

October 12, 2015 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Met the Queen for an AM run before leaving camp. No organized run, so she and I planned a run, akin to what Ford and I did last year. With us was this Rachel woman, another 40-50yo fit-looking "ultra mom".

Ran EASY on the flat road out to "The Cross", then ran this bacon-strip ridgeline doubletrack for a good hour or so. I chatted here and there, but mostly listened to Rachel and Queen.

Rachel was working WAY too hard. We were serously running like 10-minute miles, but she had to be anaerobic. And not-so-coindicentally, she and Megan were talking about Rachel's "stomach issues" in long ultras ("I can't eat anything after 60 miles"). After this run - which ended in Rachel falling off in the last couple flat miles of the run - it's clear it's because she simply grinds too damn hard (for her)...all the time. Probably races that way, too.

Ran about 10.5 miles with a blissful AHR of 117. But the last few miles the HR was mid 120s.