moelholm🏃🏻♂️🏃🏽Run race starting soon:
Istria 100 by UTMB 2023
Distance: 42k
Type: Trail run
Location: Umag, Croatia 🇭🇷
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#istria100 42k finished 🤗🤗
https://strava.app.link/Q6pVMYHw1yb
There’s a link in strava to my utmb result today. If you scroll down there’s a video of me running through the finish line
So now I should have earned 2 x utmb running stones 👌🏼⛰️👏🏼
Caz Mockett@moelholm nice medal! Well done. How are the legs?
@cazmockett thanks 🙏🏼 . They are a bit flat 😂
Thought it would be a bit easier than it was. Likely due to the “technical rocky” downhill sections. Ankles are a bit sore too 😂
It’s ok - I was about to burst into laughing this evening at the restaurant: the runners were soo easy to spot!: they were walking like they made a poop 💩 in their trousers 😂😂😂😂. Hilarious. Then looking at these super sporty folks that can barely walk 👏🏼😀
@moelholm ha ha. I know what you mean by how they are walking 😂🤪
WTL
Matthew Clover@moelholm Nice work! Way to get it done!
@clovertalk hehe thanks 🤠🙏🏼 - yeah it wasn’t easy. So that’s important to say: the legs feel used and was also tired for the last 12k ish. But despite that and a short hamstring cramp - then I felt good. The hamstring cramp was not severe - just mega annoying as I had to stop and “get back”.
However I would be rich if I got a dollar for every person I saw (or heard yelling about) having a cramp 🙃. It seems to be a trail runner thing (for some) 😅
I’m getting better at minimizing them though🥳
MadDave@moelholm well done! UTS next?
@Sourdough thanks. Yes absolutely - UTS next month. One race in between in Denmark (in two weeks) though 😅. I’ll go easy in between them I think… to not overload myself too much
dominic 🌱@moelholm good luck. You got this
@dominicvfx thanks 🙏🏼
@moelholm you have a lot of potential. Excited to see how far you will go
@dominicvfx that’s very nice of you to say - thanks a lot. I’ll try to not disappoint you too much 😀🤠🏃🏽🏃🏽
Btw: thanks again for the “hill 3 is runnable” tip. The words was in my mind on that uphill - and I prioritized running specifically due to that for those segments where the ascent wasn’t too crazy (otherwise I may have walked to prevent burning off to much effort, until after it)
@moelholm I remember a particularly tough race I was running. I kept remembering something someone told me over and over. It made me stronger. It made me believe I could do it. It was on a loop in my head until I got out of the dark place.
I meant it. I knew you could run it or at least part of it.
I meant it. I knew you could run it or at least part of it.
@dominicvfx 💪🏻 … I believe I could run most of it - but still played it slightly safe on some segments: knew I had to let loose after the hill. I think it was a good strategy - because it may otherwise have impacted the rest of the kilometers waiting after it negatively.
Experience like that is really helpful. I think I’ll figure out exactly why I thought it was scarier than it was. So that I can make a similar more realistic strategic calibration for the next races 👌🏼😎
@moelholm that was smart. It's hard to know unless you've run the course before. Your mind will want to protect you from damage. Sometimes it's a bit over protective.