How to Make the True Grit Jacket Soft Again

The countless hours of preparation and weekends sacrificed to long runs, all come down to this massive outcome. The planning and time spent testing food, clothing, and mindset, has all been a challenge physically and mentally. Long runs can be boring and alone, certain you see some amazing things forth the way, but sometimes you merely desire to go habitation and hang out with the cat ;)

True Grit Enduro in Sydney - a 24 hour obstruction race with thirty obstacles in a 10.8km loop, and to add to the fun there is a ten burpee penalization for any obstacle that cannot exist completed.

This is my race notes for True Grit Enduro, a couple tips, and tricks for your next big effect.

June 10, 2017

The morning time has finally come up for me to run for 24 hours - mentally I feel better than last year, physically I experience stronger in the legs than ever. I need to stay confident that I will continue on through the night and into the morning. My chief goal overall is to keep until I run out of time to run some other lap. The earliest I finish would exist around 12:00pm Lord's day, depending on how the legs experience. The race ends at 2:00pm so that would exit me 2 hours to get in the concluding lap.

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I haven't had much slumber leading upward to this, Th night was spent packing until 12:30am then I was upward again at 4:00am to become the gear ready and catch the cab to the airdrome to fly for six:00am.

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Gear Listing:

Start of the run

• Saucony trails
• 2xu shorts
• Chafing cream
• Injinji socks
• Gators
• Shin protectors
• Shorts
• Sunnies
• Compression top
• Hydration vest

Darker colder laps (2 laps)

• Long sleeve top
• Headlamp
• Perchance bleggmits

Dark Time

• Wetsuit or thermal compressions
• Frog socks if in that location non already on
• Beanie
• Bleggmitts
• Hand warmers in ziplock bags

5am when it's colder

• Jacket to put over top
• Fresh warmers

Suns up and a niggling warmer

• Wetsuit off
• New underwear
• New shorts
• New shirt
• Sunnies
• Probably still a long sleeve

Pit Gear

• Tent
• Chair
• Sleeping pocketbook
• Air mattress
• Lantern
• Air mattress pump
• GoPro
• Extra batteries

Diet was a big issue for me concluding year at this event, it seems like I didn't consume anything. Looking at last years notes I had zippo on nutrition and I can't actually remember eating much.

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Nutrition list

• Chia seed mix- Iskaiate endurance two scoops per lap (soft flask)
• Amino acid mix (soft flask)
• UCAN 1-2 scoops per lap. I will take this in a cup at the transition
• Cliff bars
• Bananas
• Brain octane soft gels - Taken at transition
• Honey with mct oil. mixed into the shampoo containers
• Warm soup for the cold night
• Chocolate (100%)
• Beet aristocracy for claret flow
• Table salt tabs
• Nuun tabs
• Salty fries
• Cookies
• Mushroom java
• Recipe - banana, iv strawberries, 4 tbsp chia seeds, coconut water, cinnamon, 1 cup oats, three dates, salt, dearest, almond butter, coconut oil
• Recipe - rice, cinnamon, salt, turmeric, honey
• Recipe - rice, sweet potato, banana, chia seeds, salt, cinnamon, dearest

We arrived at the pit expanse effectually eight:00am to become gear up, information technology had been raining for a couple days leading up to the event and was not quitting. We were lucky when nosotros arrived and had a chance to set up with no pelting in sight. Race conference started at ane:00pm and nosotros got slammed with a crazy amount of pelting, flooding the pit area and tents with simply a piffling fourth dimension left until get-go time at 2:00pm. Lucky my fiancé was able to aid me by moving all the equipment to another location while I went on with the race.

Postal service race notes:

1st lap: 01:51:xvi

-1L H2o and but i soft flask of chia seed mix

-Cliff bar

-Long 2xu compression pants

-Arm sleeves

-Batman compression top

-Spartan shorts

2nd lap: 02:03:24

-Chia seed mix in flask, one Nuun tablet in 2nd flask

-Cliff bar

-Headlamp

-Long sleeve shirt

3rd lap: 02:35:42

-Nutella banana sandwich

-Cliff bar

-Nuun, h2o and chia seed mixes.

-Strawberry

-One of the food mixes

-Frog socks and gloves

-Thermal pinch pants and top

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4th lap: 02:33:49

-Strawberry

-Beetelite

-Cliff bar

-Banana

-Nuun, water and chia seed mix

5th lap: 03:31:09

- Walked this lap

-Sandwich

-Cliff bar

-Strawberry

-UCAN

-Nuun, water and chia seed mix

-Changed into wetsuit (approx 11:30pm)

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6th lap: 03:56:49

-Needed a 30min intermission in the pit before walking sixth lap

-Caffeine shot

-Noodles

-ii cliff bars

-Amino acids

-Nuun and h2o

7th lap: 02:58:45

-Suns upwards, feeling good

-Panadol

-Nuun, and chia seed mix

-No actress water this lap

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8th lap: 03:10:45

-Took off wetsuit and put on new compressions and arm sleeves

-Beet aristocracy

-Coffee shot

-Ginger

-Nutrient mix

-Nuun, water and chia seed mix

-Panadol once again

I had my mind set on completing 10 or more than laps this year but with the weather conditions I couldn't get in that location. I'thou however really happy with the result because the overall goal was to last the 24 hours.

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The hardest function for me was going on through the nighttime, my trunk and mind were tired, I declined mentally and was asking myself why I signed upwardly for this. I wanted to sleep in the pits and kept telling myself I would never do this again. For a little while, walking with Lee in forepart and Jeff behind me, I started to lose my grip on reality, getting startled by shadows, encephalon fog and taking micro sleeps while walking. This was something I have never experienced earlier and at that bespeak continuing on didn't seem like an pick. By the time we reached the pit for our seventh lap the sun was coming up. I fabricated a quick terminate at the porter potty, when I came out the sun was up and everything changed. I grabbed some more food and went to  run across Jeff and Lee. I chop-chop institute out they had already left nearly 10min earlier I got there. In a chip of a panic I took off out of the pits running at well-nigh full speed. I had people auspicious me on, I'm guessing I looked awesome at that indicate. Later on running for well-nigh 10min I realised what I was doing and was totally amazed that I could run, and mentally I felt awesome, gear up to take on annihilation. It was obstacle 3 where I finally found them, running with my banana and nutella sandwich hanging from my mouth. I was so happy I didn't have to complete that lap all on my own, it defiantly helps to have a team to push each other through. With lots of time left in the race to become 8 laps complete it felt like a victory already. No force per unit area, just like shooting fish in a barrel running with the boys until the finish. I concluded upwards with 8 laps in 22 hours 43 min, 85 km (93 km on the Garmin), 240 obstacles and 0 burpees.

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I have learned a lot again this twelvemonth and look forward to competing again next year. In 2022 I placed 69th and this year I placed 27th. With all the training I have put in I know I can do meliorate.

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Source: https://www.apexwarrior.ca/post/how-i-completed-a-24-hour-obstacle-race