Ray K on multiple ultras in succession

Yes I have don some races in close proximity. I’ve tried sitting on my butt, running real short/easy and running some decent mileage. My best subsequent runs were always after “as close to normal training as possible.”

1. With no runs between I was tight and sore for the next event.

2. With a few runs I could move, but it was not comfortable or pretty.

3. With “normal” training I was ready to race, as little as a week later, and with 2-3 weeks between raring to go.

Last fall, beginning with my 2 mile run after arriving home from NC24 in Cleveland and ending with my 4 mile run Friday morning before Hinson Lake I ran 50 in those 6 days. (M 4 am, 6 pm T same, W 4 am, 10 Crawling 2:11 pm Th 4 am 6 pm) I ran almost the exact same races one week apart as a result. Had I not run in between I’d have fared far worse.

Had the next race been 2 weeks later I’d have gone ahead and run a 20 miler on the weekend in between.

anton krupicka 2010 running mileage

January: 488mi, 71h 50min, 91,500’, 31 Greens
February: 501mi, 75h 33min, 101,300’, 36 Greens
March: 547mi, 81h 08min, 94,700’, 31 Greens
April: 673mi, 101h 19min, 120,400’, 35 Greens
May: 522mi, 73h 18min, 76,100’, 21 Greens
June: 674mi, 102h 09min, 113,900’, 22 Greens
July: 501mi, 74h 23min, 77,700’, 11 Greens
August: 459mi, 88h 06min, 66,400’, 12 Greens
September: 435mi, 66h 35min, 85,300’, 17 Greens
October: 668mi, 99h 37min, 128,900’, 34 Greens
November: 461mi, 69h 35min, 97,000’, 28 Greens
December: 356mi, 53h, 01min, 56,300’, 18 Greens

2010: 6285mi, 956h 34min, 1,108,100’ 296 Greens
29 Bears
6 SoBos

That’s an average of right at 120.5 miles per week and 17.2 miles, 2h37min and 3036’ vertical per day.

(Source: antonkrupicka.blogspot.com)