AT100 Training

I'm a day under 2 months from the Arkansas Traveller 100 (yes, there are two L's).  Its taken me a while to get to the point of wanting to attempt another 100 miler, and this one is a qualifier that will keep me in the Western States lottery, assuming I don't DNF.  I feel like I have a long way to go in training, yet I feel like I'm way ahead of my previous training for Rocky Raccoon 100.  I admittedly went into that race under-trained.  I logged the miles (did both a 50 miler and a 50K in training), but I didn't do any back-to-back long runs, and I missed a lot of weekday (and some weekend) runs.  This past weekend, I cranked out a 16 miler on Saturday, and followed that with at 3:05 trail run.  While I still need to get the mileage up quite a bit, I'm feeling good on my runs.

This weekend will go a long way to giving me a good idea of my fitness, as I'm running the Capt'n Karl's 60K out at Colorado Bend State Park.  I have no delusions of going out and crushing this race, but instead, I'm looking for a consistent effort.  I just want to feel good the whole race and not allow the race to turn into a death march.  I've run the 30K on this course before, but I can't really remember too much about the course.  I don't remember it being overly technical, but Katie thinks it is.  I guess we'll see.

I still have about 15 pounds I need to drop to get down to my ideal race weight, though I'm only about 5 pounds over my RR100 race weight.  I'll get there eventually if I keep throwing down the mileage.  I'm running a lot of hills, and also doing TRX for core and leg strength.  I'm hoping that extra strength will help me late in the race when historically my legs and core have been shot.

We will see how it goes, but I'm feeling pretty positive about this 100 miler.