Backing Up

Today:
Purpose:  long run
Distance:  26.7 km
Time:  3 hrs 4 mins 26 secs
Rate:  6' 54" per km
Altitude gain:  454 metres
Weather:  sunny, 12-21 degrees, humidity 90%-55%, wind calm

Week:  90.00 km,  Dec:  417.4 km,  Year:  5262.3 km

Where my running participation fits into the scene, I need to focus on recovery and being able to back up day after day.
This means getting recovery right, both physical & mental, as well as staying injury free & staying focused on the immediate event.
But it also means having a focus for what is next & the event after that.
My main focus for next year will again be a long run in the outback this time in June as that's when I can get a 4 week holiday break. It also mean escaping winter for a few weeks to places where the only thing in the sky will be sun in the daytime & the stars at night.
With B2H now only 2 weeks away, that is getting the rightful priority it deserves as it can very easily bite you big time. It has a top of the pile status on the list of the short ultras. Other longer mountainous ultras, eg North Face 100 km, GNW & several others in the Victorian Alps are really for the hard core mountain runners, but not for me, just too hard. Having to carry a backpack with survival gear puts me off some of these events.
Today, a good back up run with Softshoe with a one day break after out Boxing Day run on Mt Rob Roy. A fairly standard Two Fruit's loop run behind Theodore, Chisholm, MacArthur to Long Gully Road, Farrer Ridge & Wanniassa Hills.
It still had a good amount of elevation gain & loss, about half of the Mt Rob Roy run. Comfortable run, a very nice morning after the humidity dropped.
I have a work group bush walk on Sunday, about 20 kms, so again will top the 100 kms for the week & maintain yearly average per week. All good at the moment.