Daily Archives: Sunday, August 24, 2008

In an amazingly-blazingly fast 1:40 (a 9:05 pace) I did…11 km. OK, so I was slower than a dead goat. So sue me. I guess my body decided that it was going out for a run on a Sunday so it must be going to be a huge run…let’s flood his system with insulin because as always he must be guzzling Gatorade. Not. I crashed big time and felt like a diabetic with no sugar for about 4 km. And it was hot. Now that I’m done whining, I just calculated how fast one needs to run to finish the Grand Cache Death Race. In 24 hours over a 125 km course you have to run an average of 11:30 minutes per kilometer pace to finish. “Eleven and a half minutes per kilometer???” you exclaim incredulously. Yes, I say. But before you think you could crawl that race before lunchtime, … Continue reading →