{"id":2282,"date":"2017-02-24T08:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chrisrivard.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:04:23","slug":"100-things-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/100-things-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"100 things to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this in my notes last night. It&#8217;s the list of things that I wanted to remember when I ran Mountain Lakes 100.<\/p>\n<p>Tips I picked up from reading a lot of articles and from reading Jason Koop&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velopress.com\/books\/training-essentials-for-ultrarunning\/\">Training Essentials for Ultrarunning<\/a>. I highly recommend that book and if there&#8217;s one thing that I took away from it &#8212; it&#8217;s that you want to show up at the start line as FIT as possible. That means having your engine \/ Vo2max as high as possible &#8212; which means, do a lot of threshold training &#8212; which means &#8212; run a lot of hill intervals.<\/p>\n<p>The other book that I recommend is by Matt Fitzgerald, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velopress.com\/books\/how-bad-do-you-want-it\/\">How Bad to you Want It?\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0There was some pseudoscience-y bullshit in there, but for the most part it was inspiring to read anecdotes about the mental side of endurance racing. And running an ultra is 99% mental.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my list.<\/p>\n<div><b>Goals<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish the race <em>(there&#8217;s nuance to this one &#8211; it&#8217;s not, &#8220;JUST finish the race&#8221; or &#8220;TRY to finish the race&#8221;, it&#8217;s explicit and direct: \u00a0&#8220;finish the m&#8217;fing race&#8221;)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Process Goals (how are you going to do this?)<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Pacing<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy the first 25 miles. Walk.<\/li>\n<li>Refresh at 50 miles at Clackamas<\/li>\n<li>Run as far as I can<\/li>\n<li>Walk\/run, shuffle to get back into running form, then run<\/li>\n<li>Slow down when eating, then run when I have energy<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a consistent pace (slow and steady)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Nutrition<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat when my alarm goes off, every 20 minutes after 1.5 hours<\/li>\n<li>Eat 200+ calories per hour<\/li>\n<li>Try to eat as much real food as I can stomach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Attitude<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Take care of problems in a deliberate way, don&#8217;t let them go<\/li>\n<li>Say please and thank you.<\/li>\n<li>Have fun and enjoy the long run! Force the smile.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the pain, sit with it and then let it go<\/li>\n<li>Your heart must be large<\/li>\n<li>Steer clear of negative energy people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>ADAPT<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Accept<\/li>\n<li>Diagnose<\/li>\n<li>Analyze<\/li>\n<li>Plan<\/li>\n<li>Take Action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>REMEMBER<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep focusing on the positive. No matter how bad things are, it could be worse.<\/li>\n<li>Keep shuffling, even if it seems just as slow as walking. It\u2019s not.<\/li>\n<li>You want this BAD.<\/li>\n<li>This is a meditation exercise<\/li>\n<li>This is your treat!<\/li>\n<li>Run the plan, run your race.<\/li>\n<li>Keep it together. You got this.<\/li>\n<li>You are an unstoppable force.<\/li>\n<li>slow is smooth and smooth is fast<\/li>\n<li>Steady and strong, steady and smart.<\/li>\n<li>Be patient, no stress. Aid station to aid station.<\/li>\n<li>If I stop now, I&#8217;ll soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.<\/li>\n<li>You didn&#8217;t come this far only to come this far.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a tough MF&#8217;er.<\/li>\n<li>Om mani padme hum.<\/li>\n<li>Just flow<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t stop when I&#8217;m tired, I stop when I&#8217;m done.<\/li>\n<li>Absolutely nothing hurts more than quitting would. Barring an injury that physically prevents me from making forward progress, I\u2019m not going to stop until I finish this race.<\/li>\n<li>I will do all that I can do, and a little more.<\/li>\n<li>During the first 50 miles don&#8217;t be stupid, during the last 50 miles don&#8217;t be a wimp.<\/li>\n<li>Have faith that the low point will not last. Everyone gets out of it eventually.<\/li>\n<li>Expect a very dark point about every 20 miles, or every 5 &#8211; 6 hours. Count the dark points, and make a pact to push through at least 5 of them.<\/li>\n<li>I CAN do this, I WILL finish<\/li>\n<li>Clear Your Mind of Can&#8217;t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2290\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/dsc_4845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2290\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2290\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_4845-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t forget to smile.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this in my notes last night. It&#8217;s the list of things that I wanted to remember when I ran Mountain Lakes 100. Tips I picked up from reading a lot of articles and from reading Jason Koop&#8217;s book, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning. I highly recommend that book and if there&#8217;s one thing that I [&hellip;]<\/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-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}