Hungryland UltraAdventure
As promised, here are the fun details of my race on Saturday! Hungryland offers two timed options- the six hour Runner Gunner, or the 33 hour Jogger Slogger. I’m signed up for the longer option. We’ll have 33 hours to run as many, or as few, 14.3 mile loops as we want. Here’s the thing- you only get credit for completed loops. So if you complete three loops, go out for a fourth but DNF on that loop, you DNF the entire race. Okay, let’s do a little math! Four 14.3 mile loops would be 57.2 miles. That is NOT 60! It’s a conundrum, isn’t it? If I want to start a fifth loop, I have to either finish it (with 71.5 miles), or, if I drop out during that loop, I’ll have to take a DNF for the entire race. Hmmm. Assuming that nothing goes horribly wrong, I’ll finish four loops and then have to decide what to do. If I start a fifth loop I have to be pretty sure I can finish another 14.3 miles. If not, I figure I’ll run on my own, around the parking lot, until my Garmin shows 60 miles. My official race distance will show 57.2, but I think I’ll be satisfied with my own personal 60 miles. I’ll make my decision depending on how the day goes! Here’s some photos from the race website: WHY would they include this one??? Are they trying to scare us? The truth is- if it’s Florida and there’s water, there could ba alligators. But having 75 runners traipsing through should scare them away (right? RIGHT???) Anyway… deep breaths…today (Wednesday) is my day off and I’ll be running last-minute errands, picking up odds and ends I don’t already have (most of my gear is ready to go). I’ll also be making a special playlist, which I do for every race. The playlists have the names of the race for their title, so on a long run I can go back and listen to “Dunes 50K’ or “Skunk Ape 50” and relive parts of those races. This playlist will be called “Birthday 60” and obviously the first song will be the Beatles “Birthday” from the White Album. Any suggestions for my playlist?