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WSER - AM work at DT, then pacing Didrik Hermansen

June 25, 2016 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 80s, warm and dry

Comments:
Pretty solid day. Started like last year:
- waking up at Andy's in Reno, breakfast, then down the hill
- drove out to Devil's Thumb
- DT AS: bleh, OK. Despite the conversation, they (Dennis and his henchmen) were still annoyingly controlling of ice and pretty much ALL AS supplies. Almost wanted to punch his #2, some dickhead who works the fluids, after he THREW a 20lb ice bag at me. What an asshole.
- Interesting as always to watch the race unfold up there. Walmsley got there early (despite Dennis saying he would not), and looked rushed and a bit flustered. NOT good. "Just chill, dude!". It was about :15 before the next guy came through
- Didrik looked real good when he came through, in top 5. Andrew was right behind him

Once again, I was getting the jitters to get out of there, so after a few hours, I left CA, and took the car to Driver's Flat to get ready.

I got the shuttle down around 4ish and heard that Walmsley had come through, sans pacer, and tried to swim across the river and was almost swept away. "Just chill, dude!"

I waited a long time for the next runners to come through. I'd checked and it looked like Andrew was *in second* about 5-8 minutes ahead of Didrik! I waited in a chair, in the shade. Finally, about nearly an HOUR after Jim's passing, here comes Andrew...and only about 90s back, Didrik! Andrew was SUPER-fast, as usual, through the aid, and across the river.

Didrik was less fast: bottle fill, some energy, etc. Then onto the ropes. Here we go!

After we crossed and started hiking up the hill, I was readying for a major battle with Andrew for 2nd. As I was peppering Didrik with intel about Andrew, he said, quite tersely, "I've been vomiting".

Uh-oh.

"Can you take in anything?"
"Only ginger ale"

OK, well that's that, then. Ginger ale in the bottle.

We made OK time up to Green Gate, but lots of hiking. We saw his parents (speaking Norge) about a half-mile out the AS. Once there, I got his SINGLE bottle (the dickhead didn't take two, as both BGD and I implored) filled with ginger ale. He ate a melon hunk, then grabbed some things from his parents. Then we hiked out again.

As we were running down away from GG...BLEH. Out it all comes. Crap. Staggering a bit, he got himself together. "OK, let's go".

GG to ALT
- one more puke, otherwise lots of encouragement
- MAJOR dousing at the creeks. He loved it, and was very heated- even though by then it was only mildly hot
- he ran awesome on the downs! Really impressive

At ALT: he tried eat again, but once past the AS: BLEH. Crap. But he'd always rally

ALT to BB:
- SLOW flat and up paces
- still fast on downs!
- he stopped one time to pee...and out red it came. "What is that?" "mmm...that's blood...just keep going"

At BB: got the news - "JEEEM GOT LOST!" Andrew was way up, but now we're in second!!

BB to 49
- descent but SLOW on any flat-up on Quarry
- fairly slow climbing
- perhaps only one vomit episode
- TONS of request from me to "take a sip from the bottle"
- lots of encouragement and little stories

at 49: busy AS, just trying to get him one last bottle of ginger ale. Fucking "Franklin Delano 'Haene" - once again DNS'ing - is trying to talk to him and tell him to eat something. I wanted to tell him to Fuck off, and we kept going

49 to No Hands
- slow hiking uphill
- decent flat running on the meadow, which was AWESOME with the late evening sun! LOVE it!
- SUPER-FAST descent, wow! So clutch! My watch was clocking sub 7 pace!
- very brief stops: to douse at a mini creek along that descent, then sponges at NH

NH to Robie
- again, slow on the flat, slow hiking up. I'm watching our backs, a ton
- slow hiking all up to Robie

Robie to the Finish-
- it seems like we've got it in the bag.
- slow hike up the Mile 99, with an AWESOME reception! Man, tons of people!
- nice hello from the BISP family at their house
- "running the tangents" in town, down the hill
- a quick talk about "The Tevis Cup" and "the final inspection" - "LOOKING GOOD" for the fans!

Getting to the track was really cool. Wow, tons of people. After having been on his deathbed, he came alive and had a ton of fun (and fast running) on that final 250m. I Peeled off with 75m to go and let him have it.

Good times! He finished in 16:18 or so, and second to Andrew, who ran 15:39. Walmsley missed the trail turn on Quarry and had to back track, but still ran like top 15.

Good learning experience. Man, his DOWNhill running -and his apparently excellent fat metabolism - saved his ass, for sure!

I felt pretty solid, but did not have enough water in the end, so I had some significant gut rot.

Post-race
- hung out and reconvened with CA and BGD
- I alerted medical (or tried) to let them know about Didrik peeing blood
- he and I chatted very briefly, but not much
- had a beer on the infield with CPC, but then went to In N Out for "dinner" at 10ish PM.

Good experience, glad I did it.

Stats:
Miles: 22.3
AHR: 147. In retrospect, my HR REALLY jacked in the end, which is weird. It never felt high. Not sure if it was dust or allergies, or what, but it was like nearly threshold at 49 and after!
Vert: 3200 up, 2700 down