{"id":1001,"date":"2013-09-09T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/run.dj\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T04:49:40","slug":"the-4x100-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/run.dj\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"The 4×100 Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting excited about running since it’s turned cold. After the North Face 100<\/a> I had a brain wave and decided I’d like a new challenge, and that’s when I started working on an event I would call the ‘4×100 Relay’. It consisted of 4x 100km runs, one each weekend for a month. I chose the month of August, and it went \u00a0like this-<\/p>\n

Week 1- Saturday 3rd August 2013
\nCONVICTtON- This is a new run devised by Mad Mike (Michael McGrath) along a 50km section of an old convict built road as an out and back. Done as a Fatass<\/a>\/ unsupported run with no support.<\/p>\n

Week 2- Saturday 10th August 2013
\n12 Foot Track<\/a>– Another Fatass run, another out and back. Yes, it’s ‘only’ about 90km so you’d have to do the City to Surf<\/a> on Sunday to make up the distance<\/p>\n

Week 3- Saturday 17th August 2013
\nCapital to Coast<\/a> 100km stage race. This one is 100km over 2 days, so a great ‘warm down’ for the main event which is-<\/p>\n

Week 4- Friday 23rd August
\nTrailwalker Sydney<\/a>– I did this in 2010 as a walker, and 29.5 hours of walking is pretty difficult. I think it will be much better as a runner!<\/p>\n

It didn’t work out- I wanted to use the Poor Mans Comrades<\/a> as a test, and I failed the test. With 3 weeks recovery after TNF100<\/a> I was still feeling it in the legs and realised that it was going to be impossible to do so much running in such a short time. What I’ve only realised today is that I COULD have been a little less ambitious and done 4×100 over 4 months. It would have looked like this<\/p>\n

May- The north Face 100<\/a>
\nJune- Poor Mans Comrades<\/a>
\nJuly- 3 Marathons in 3 Days<\/a>, Adelaide 12\/24 Hour<\/a>, Kokoda Challenge<\/a>
\nAugust- Trailwalker<\/a><\/p>\n

So if I’d finished PMC I’d be halfway through my challenge! Oh well. Maybe if we start with Trailwalker we could do something that looks like this-<\/p>\n

August- Trailwalker<\/a>
\nSeptember- Centennial Park Ultra<\/a>
\nOctober- Hume & Hovell 100<\/a>\/Ned Kelly Chase<\/a>
\nNovember- Great North Walk 100s<\/a><\/p>\n

I really need to have something to focus on and help me get outside while the weather is chilly, maybe this is it. What about you, will you join me?<\/p>\n

UPDATE 9.9.13. I’ve just completed the CONVICTtON (it was rescheduled several times), so we might be on target for ‘Plan B’ after all…….<\/p>\n

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