{"id":2017,"date":"2018-05-22T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:12:33","slug":"jemez-my-longest-50k-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Jemez – my longest 50k ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, I ran the Jemez 50 again.\u00a0 The course had changed this year to be closer to town since Los Alamos is so dry that it’s already been put into stage 2 fire restrictions.\u00a0 The weather was warm in the morning and I started in a T-shirt.<\/p>\n

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Joe P was there along with my friend Mike and his friend Grace.<\/p>\n

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You can see all the dust in the air and this is a paved road; it was ten times worse once we got on the trail.<\/p>\n

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The first 15 miles are climbs to the ski resort.\u00a0 It was getting warm, but we made it in 3 hours and 25 minutes, only 5 minutes slower than my goal.<\/p>\n

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A fresh shirt felt great.<\/p>\n

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Over the next mile, the course goes up over the double black diamond ski run.\u00a0 I started to bonk with the sun beating down on me.<\/p>\n

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I should have been bombing down the big hill on the other side, but I was really slow.\u00a0 Mike made it in 15 minutes before me to the aid station.<\/p>\n

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I may look OK, but I wasn’t feeling good – my feet hurt to run and I was cooking in the sun.<\/p>\n

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Mike was way ahead of me by now and had time to pose for pictures.<\/p>\n

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By the time I saw Tracy again at mile 30, I was at a crawling pace.\u00a0 The race always has a choice to switch to the 50k, but normally the choice is made at mile 20 – this year, the choice was here and it was an obvious one since the 50k finish was only 2 miles away.<\/p>\n

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I’m all smiles as I crossed the finish line.<\/p>\n

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Everyone seemed happy to see me and I was happier to see them.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, I ran the Jemez 50 again.\u00a0 The course had changed this year to be closer to town since Los Alamos is so dry that it’s already been put into stage 2 fire restrictions.\u00a0 The weather was warm in the morning and I started in a T-shirt. Joe P was there along with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}