Rings Of Fire: Post WS100 Training Questions
This post deals with training issues, gear issues, and comes from a guy who doesn't run that much anymore. So, now's a really good time to delete, because I'm going to ask some pointed questions about a lot of things.
There has been a lot of soul-searching and what-ifs, along with 'whistling past the graveyard' post-Western States 100 on the business of near-fatalities caused by dehydration, and spectacular blister pyrotechnics.
I did WS in 93, and spent a good 90min plus at Michigan Bluff. On the way up, I had a pounding in my kidneys, my ears were ringing, my quads had locked up, and people were passing me as fast as they could, completely ignoring my doubled-over ass. I was dehydrating, in deep shit. I got past it, but it added a good 3hrs to my race...
AND IT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN.
Why? Because that day I rolled out with a rehydration scenario I hadn't trained with. I didn't know it cold.
OVERTURE
I remember a Facebook post made, or at least answered to,…
There has been a lot of soul-searching and what-ifs, along with 'whistling past the graveyard' post-Western States 100 on the business of near-fatalities caused by dehydration, and spectacular blister pyrotechnics.
I did WS in 93, and spent a good 90min plus at Michigan Bluff. On the way up, I had a pounding in my kidneys, my ears were ringing, my quads had locked up, and people were passing me as fast as they could, completely ignoring my doubled-over ass. I was dehydrating, in deep shit. I got past it, but it added a good 3hrs to my race...
AND IT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN.
Why? Because that day I rolled out with a rehydration scenario I hadn't trained with. I didn't know it cold.
OVERTURE
I remember a Facebook post made, or at least answered to,…