I decide to add this entry today as it is 1 month away and I can't back out anymore from this point.
Over the past 8 months I've been preparing for this race. Will it be enough? I don't know, I've never attempted to run this far...
In 2017 I did the 30km version of this event and completed it in just under 5 hours. What made this experience unique was that I ran with the leading lady and 4th place male of the UTD100 event for the last 15km and it gave me a unique and great insight into how these top athletes approach a race like this. It also showed me how much they suffer, basically the same as all the other racers of all the other distances. I ended up motivating the leading lady the last 10km as she was in a bad state and I could see she was ready to give up. I was quit proud of myself being able to motivate someone like that and this gave me the self believe that I could finish a distance like that.
In the past I have done 24 hour races but those where multi discipline and in a team so although I acknowledge it would have prepared me mentally I'm not sure about being on your feet alone is entirely the same thing.
A little bit of insight into my training so far for 2018 (January, February and March):
This coming weekend will be my last big run of 60km before I start tapering.
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