Ultra Miko Running

  Race: Ode to Laz 2022 Date: July 24, 2022 Time:  10 Yards Place: 31st Pre-Race Conditions: The night before Odemas. Laying in the hotel relaxing a bit before sleeping.  We stopped by the park today and saw a bunch of people. The Sworry trials were in full swing with a few races going and some triathlon challenges. The energy was there.  Its been a crazy few weeks but I think I’m pretty calm and had enough time to prep all my race things and relax. I did a lot of yoga the last week. Those sessions helped ground me and let me focus on the race and block out the noise. I’m hoping to use that focus when the race gets hard.  It’s supposed to be hot with a good chance of rain. It’s going to be a hard couple of days. Especially on day 2. My goal is 37 hours. Just to make it back to the road. I know once I get there it gets easier and I can make 37 into 38. Then 38 into 39. It’s all going to be mental and how long I can push and stay in control. The first 12 hours are...

Race: Toughest Philly 2022 Date: 5/21/22 - 5/22/22 Time:  20k Place:  244 overall Pre-Race Conditions: Almost to the Airbnb after a pretty easy drive. It was warm today and only promises to be warmer tomorrow. 86 degrees predicted for race start and it may get down to the low 70s through the night. It’s going to be warm.  I think this has to be the least miles I’ve put in the week before a race. I’ve been fighting something with my hip for just over a week. It hasn’t stopped me but in the abundance of caution. I can’t catch a break coming into these. Overall I’m feeling ready. I’ve seen the map and think it should be a fun course. This is the first race of the new 10k loop formal. All the others have been 5 mile loops. I think the extra 2k of running per loop is going to play to my strengths and let me get some more mileage. The trade off is that fueling is going to be more critical.  And then I got distracted and never finished writing.  Race Recap: Well that w...

  Race: Land Between the Lakes 50M Date: 3.12.2022 Time:  7:56:47 Place:  3rd place male Pre-Race Conditions: Night before the race and I’m writing this from bed. I set a reminder in my phone to do this for 5am instead of 5pm. There have been some changes throughout the day. The weather prediction of some snow and a NEAR 0 temp at the start made the RD push the race start back 2 hours from a 6:30 start to 8:30. With the time change that’s really like 9:30 for us. I still think a 6:30 start with the snow, wet and wind would be beautiful. Barkley was a few days ago and as John Kelly said “Barkley weather isn't extreme - it's volatile”. This is a cake walk of weather compared to that. We spend so much time training for these kinds of conditions that it’s a little upsetting when they make changes to avoid racing in them.  By the start I’m thinking the trail may be a little wet but not too bad. We got a little accumulation of snow on the car when we got done with dinner. ...

  Race: World’s Toughest Mudder 2021 Date: 11.13.2021 Time: 60 miles (12 laps)  Place: 65 out of 133 Male Contenders  Pre-Race Conditions: Viva Las Vegas!  The nice thing about flying to this race is it makes it easier for Thursday to be a hang out day. We got to go down to Fremont Street and see the light show last night. The goal was to go ziplining but there was a 4 hour wait and that was way too long. Today we got the tent and then headed down to the strip to walk through a bunch of the casinos. We started at Caesars, walked to the Venetian, the over through the Mirage to see the tigers (we didn’t because it wasn’t worth $25 to us) then moved our way to New York New York by hitting the Bellagio, Aria and the MGM park. Lunch was at Urban Tom’s in New York New York. I always forget how much there is just to see here and really need to come back when I can just explore and lose money. We finished our exploring with seeing the fountains at the Bellagio to Lady Gaga’s...