Ran my first ultramarathon!
An ultramarathon is a race of any distance over the official marathon distance (42,194 km). This ultra in particular, was 70 kilometer (43,5 miles) on the island of Ameland in the Netherlands.
Being in the Netherlands there wasn't a lot of elevation (still ~1000m according to my watch) but the loose sand and blasting headwind more than made up for it.
It was hard. That was kind of the point... It was lots of fun, most of the time anyway ;)
I'm very proud of the accomplishment. The race itself was just the cherry on top of months and months of hard training.
An ultramarathon is a race of any distance over the official marathon distance (42,194 km). This ultra in particular, was 70 kilometer (43,5 miles) on the island of Ameland in the Netherlands.
Being in the Netherlands there wasn't a lot of elevation (still ~1000m according to my watch) but the loose sand and blasting headwind more than made up for it.
It was hard. That was kind of the point... It was lots of fun, most of the time anyway ;)
I'm very proud of the accomplishment. The race itself was just the cherry on top of months and months of hard training.