My "Accidental" Ultra
I completed my first "ultra" trail marathon (54K/33.5mi.) this past Saturday at Dawson Fores. Actually, it was an "accidental" ultra, since I thought I had registered for a normal trail marathon. Oops. On top of the extra milage, it rained all morning, which made most of the trail really souply/sloppy (check out my shoes in the photo below). Sometimes the mud was 6 or more inches deep (complete foot submersion). I've included a graph of the terrain below as recorded on my Garmin. Brutal. But that's running in north Georgia. Some post-race pics are below the graph. The best part of the day was to see Kristy and Schaeffer at the finish line after 9 hours of running in the mud.
