Ultra Marathons

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Joe1970 9 Oct 12:26pm, 9 Oct 2024 204 posts	0 Joe1970 I read that article with interest...I'm doing a 25 hour track event in a couple of weeks (bonus hour because the clocks go back that night, hurrah!) which is a long, long way out of my comfort zone! I figure if I might want to do a 100-miler in the future it'll be good practise to be out for a long time but in a controlled environment (ie, I have a chair over there, and if I need to stop I just can, rather than be in the middle of nowhere). In all honesty I'm expecting to call it a day before the full time is up, but it'll be an experience for sure...
paulcook 9 Oct 12:32pm, 9 Oct 2024 6,647 posts	0 paulcook Depends what 100-miler you're thinking of, but I'd suspect a 24 (25!) hour track event would be potentially harder. Mentally yes. Physically it'll be utterly repetitive.
rhb 9 Oct 12:49pm, 9 Oct 2024 2,417 posts	0 rhb K5 Gus wrote:A mainstream article on 24 hour track racing bbc.co.uk I really enjoyed this, thanks.
jennywren 9 Oct 1:05pm, 9 Oct 2024 17,856 posts	0 jennywren I did too
Pothunter 9 Oct 2:55pm, 9 Oct 2024 9,512 posts	0 Pothunter Almost makes we want to try one…
Pothunter 9 Oct 2:56pm, 9 Oct 2024 9,513 posts	0 Pothunter *me, but I guess the sentiment of “us” rather than the grammatical abomination of “we” holds true too
jennywren 9 Oct 3:38pm, 9 Oct 2024 17,857 posts	0 jennywren I’m re- reading Michael Stocks’ book One Track Mind (mentioned in the article) Really gives a flavour of what it’s like
hellen 9 Oct 10:22pm, 9 Oct 2024 15,063 posts	0 hellen flanker wrote:We had a grass track. The inside lane was a mud bath most of the year. Lanes 3-4 tended to be the fastest. Not muddy now flanker, still a grass track and a bit uneven in places!
Sam Jelfs 9 Oct 10:33pm, 9 Oct 2024 1,507 posts	0 Sam Jelfs I tried a track 24hr once on a 1.2km cycle track and I hated it, the thought of running 400m track loops is crazy! I am wondering how I am going to manage 10 mile loops next month as I get bored far too easily...
fetcheveryone 16 Oct 9:46am, 16 Oct 2024 31,164 posts	0 fetcheveryone I've looked at about 4500 ultra performances of varying distances, and compared these to the best marathon time of the runner. I grouped all of these performances by distance e.g. 50k-ish, 50miles-ish, 100k-ish, etc, and calculated the median pace ratio for each group. So for example, in the 150k-ish group, I included all the performances between 135k and 165k, and worked out a median pace ratio of 1.84. This means that the median pace of the runners was 1.84 times their marathon pace. I bundled all that into a calculator - you just need to plug in your best (or current) marathon time to see your predictions: fetcheveryone.com/training-calculators-ultra2.php As with any predictor based on median figures, 49.9% of you will be quicker, and 49.9% of you will be slower. But it'll be great for someone