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Andras Szabo - Ultra-long

Ultra-long

On Saturday, 4th April I participated in the National Ultra-Long Distance Championship at Salgótarján, Hungary. I knew it will be very though, especially because of the 25,8km/990m climb course data ? but also because my longest ever course I ran was 17,5km before. (Junior Lond Dist. Champs 2007,08? and Senior…
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Nat. Champs 2008).I believe I did a good preparation work in the winter, including f. ex. a 175 minutes long run on terrain and several other 2 hour long trainings. But one circumstance I was not used to was present: the sudden warm weather. Although it had arrived earlier in the week ? I couldn?t cope with it. And I didn?t really run on sun before. I must say that because I was weak not only in the last part of the course (where it?s a certainity) but right from the beginning. I had very slow splits. Just like when…

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