{"id":1260,"date":"2014-07-01T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-07-01T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:48:12","slug":"burn-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/burn-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn down"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my last burn down week before tapering for Mt. Hood. I think I reduced mileage too much for Beacon Rock 50K, with weekly mileage preceding the race of 38, 20, 25, Race. I\u2019m trying a different strategy this time and plan to maintain mileage this week – landing somewhere around 30 for the week with a medium weekend run somewhere around 10 miles.<\/p>\n

I ran (and rode) through the recovery coming of Sunday\u2019s 20 miler. Last night I stretched and spent quality time with the foam roller – my legs felt good this morning and I ran into work with my pack on (sub-8 minute pace). My plan is to keep foam rolling and stretching this week – and keep the sleep hours consistent (~8).<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m still really nervous about the race. When I was feeling bad on Sunday\u2019s run, I thought about bailing, telling myself I wasn\u2019t ready. But after I recovered and got some food I felt a lot better – and felt good after. The scary thing is that when I think of 50 miles, I think of Frank from Donnie Darko. When I raced my first 50 miler my body was so broken afterwards that I couldn\u2019t sleep and Donnie Darko was the movie I watched at 3 in the morning – sitting on the couch in pain.<\/p>\n

I was walking out of a meeting with a colleague yesterday and that\u2019s when I made the decision. Completely uneventful really.\u00a0 I\u2019m ready to bring it.<\/p>\n

On my run into work this morning I was pondering this concept of forging, like metal forging, blacksmithing. A hot fire and a 10 pound sledgehammer and a piece of steel on an anvil. \u00a0I think a lot of people have a misconception that people are fragile and delicate – but it\u2019s not true, people are malleable and resilient. But the material being forged is difficult to define – its characteristics, how malleable it is, how much effort or force or energy it takes to form it. \u00a0The answer is \u2026 more effort than you think. More like steel and a sledgehammer than say sculpting with clay or working with wood.<\/p>\n

I was reading this article yesterday<\/a>\u00a0(so much amazing knowledge here), but this part stood out to me:<\/p>\n

Tanaka Shozo, a famous Japanese conservationist, said:<\/p>\n

“The question of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart.”\u00a0Ultrarunning is to a very large degree a question of the heart. Make yours big and you’ll always be a winner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Running is a thinking sport – it\u2019s about strategy. Ultras even more so – they can\u2019t be run on pure adrenalin or anger or being \u201cpumped up\u201d. You need the big love. I really like that quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my last burn down week before tapering for Mt. Hood. I think I reduced mileage too much for Beacon Rock 50K, with weekly mileage preceding the race of 38, 20, 25, Race. I\u2019m trying a different strategy this time and plan to maintain mileage this week – landing somewhere around 30 for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}