More like a rushing torrent!

Don't limit yourself --- You can spew in blogs as well! ;)
We know you can when racing too!

I did mean verbal written as well as spoken. :D

Oh, I think you could get through it...I'm sure you have a high level of fitness and you're recovered from the IM...
Try the long run tomorrow...taking walking breaks will help to extend it...see how you feel. Decide after that...
You should have in, I think, at least a marathon before the 50k and you do...it was just awhile ago and you've been maintaining since.
Myself...I'd do it even though I know it might be tough.

Yeah, I think it's maintaining...I don't think you'll cripple yourself either...just relax, have fun and don't worry about your time. three things you should do the first time at any distance.I think that getting in bike miles,while it doesn't help your running keeps you fit and helps prevent injury from running more than you should be.
What race? I have to know so I can cyber stalk ya!

Ya know I've always been tempted to do some of this ultra series in SoCal ;)

:D

Thanks Anton. I just needed to hear from someone that has done this stuff that it wouldn't be stupid to go for the experience of the one soon. I just needed to know not doing it would be wussing out and not a smart choice... I really wasn't sure which it would be, so although I wanted to do it I also wanted to be smart about it.

And the altitude for it doesn't look horrible :) Which is good since my hill running is only just starting back up.

All teasing aside Kylie, if I can do it...then you most certainly can too :) I will admit that I'm feeling like an addict, however. Sometimes when we're running long on the weekend, during the run, I'm asking..."When are we running again? How far??? What's next???" It like I'm jonesing for another hit before I'm even done with the current one!! Ohhh man...I could be in trouble...you guys have led me to the dark side....

On that note...
A picture and a song :D

I GOT CRABS FROM DARTH VADER
Parody of Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places"

Blame it all on Artoo
Said the girl from Naboo
'Cause I followed him into that bar
A couple of drinks
And soon Jar Jar Binks
Was the best thing 'bout Star Wars so far

I had blue milk and Jack
With this guy dressed in black
He was strong, dark, and seven-foot-three
But when I went home with
The Lord of the Sith
That's not all that went home with me!

'Cause I got crabs from Darth Vader
When he took me back to his star freighter
And used the Force
On me, of course
But now I itch like a Tusken Raider
Shoulda never played with his light saber!
Oh, I got crabs
From Darth Vader!

She said, I got a butt
Like Jabba the Hutt
But Darth said he'd love to clone me
He’s not bad at nookie -
He roared like a Wookiee
Through episodes one, two, and three

But at double-sunrise
He grabbed his disguise
And dumped me in Tatooine's sand
Hope that freak went to bake
In that big lava lake
That's my last one-Jedi-Knight stand!

'Cause I got crabs from Darth Vader
When I got too close to that dictator
He said, I'll get you
And Lei-ya too
I love that sound from his respirator
But now I need an exterminator!
'Cause I got crabs
From Darth Vader!

All the freaks in Mos Eisley sing along:

I got crabs from Darth Vader
When he took me back to his star freighter
And used the Force
On me, of course
But now I itch like a Tusken Raider
Shoulda never played with his light saber!
Oh, I got crabs
From Darth Vader!

I have been waiting for an opportunity to use that one :D

I'd get in one more long run next Wednesday...that leaves you 18 days to taper and recover...which should be fine for you you,young whippersnapper! A taper for an ultra is like an IM, 17 to 21 days.A friend of mine who has a fair ammount of 100 mile events under his belt often extends his long run by walking or riding afterward. Run 18 and when you are done, walk for another hour...time on the feet, or hop on the trainer and pedal easy for an hour...seems to work for him and it has for me too when I've tried it.

Scott...you going to sing that for the 50? If you do I'll be forced to recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Sounds like a plan!
Remember, the biggest hurdle to your first Ultra....is mental.

No ,it's not bad...life is full of many paths. This is just a different one and different is always exciting.

I'll be ready, maybe that was me, or I could be just wishing :D

Awesome Ky!!

For me, if I sign up, I'm going to do it. I don't want to waste the money. :D

Hang out with the UR crowd and you'll get sucked into "Fat A$$" races. They are free. (in AR they call them "diets"), and usually attended by a handful of folks...
Good on you Kylie for taking the bull by the horns,bit in the teeth and any other metaphor that involves farm animals....

...metaphor with farm animals? I am trying to restrain myself here to keep it PG!! :D

Maybe something more along the lines of 'Dueling Banjos'
You shall have your 'Deliverance' ;)

but... can you string them together until the cows come home?

Oh, I am thinking alright!! :D

I am the epitome of restraint at the moment.

"no toon can resist, shave and a haircut....."

"Two bits!"

...if only I could be a fly on your camelback ;)

Kinda like the straw that broke the camel's back? Besides, you'll be in la-la-land "later on," so what's the difference? That's when the coversation could get interesting....

Ok, you're right, apparently Beads is already in la-la-land :D And there's that word only again....