Final Pre-Race VLOG: How Far Can I Run in 24 hours? USATF Ultra Running Championship!

[@ThatScarletKnight]

Good luck Sage!!! Excited to see what happens! Hope you have a good one!!

[@Dora-bmrwarrior]

Good luck Sage! I will try to catch some of the livestream tomorrow. Sounds like you have a great crew supporting you. Hope they have fun!

[@Vo2maxProductions]

thank you! yes, I am lucky for the support!

[@1519Spring]

Livestream on now...

[@sharonkeough8588]

Good luck Sage😊

[@svenja5596]

Watching the livestream right now wishing you a great race 💪 stay strong 👊

[@roblasonder5015]

Wishing you all the best on this one Sage! I hope you will do great.

[@joshuasasfire2759]

Go Sage!

[@andreasmashias6078]

Good luck Sage! I hope you go well above 250km!

[@LIVELAUGHLOVEWELLY]

Top guy. Hope you and Sandi are both well

[@BobbyRunout_EverydayWorld]

Enjoy the race & good luck!

[@GokiwiPickering-bv8nn]

Good Luck Sage, hope it’s not to hot for the race, gooooo! Save YOU GOT THIS!!

[@kangaroo967]

Best of luck, Sage!

[@10xmz6]

Could you please do a video on time crunched middle distance runners (4h/week). Currently I am running 2h twice a week, with sprints in the long runs. Especially I'd like you to answer, 1) which types of racing would be advisable (middle distance? 5 k? 10 k?) given the little training time, 2) which workouts or types of training does work on so little time, 3) if one should periodize or structure the training. Thank you very much :) Nobody thinks of the time crunched population and this is a pity. There is so much potential in it. Often it is just a (short) and pretty stressful phase in ones life, where one would like to go on training, but don't know how.

[@denisesteele-turtlerunners8808]

You got this Sage

[@iterato1]

Have a great race

[@TheJhong47]

Where's the link on the livestream?

[@Vo2maxProductions]

I think it will start here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGi0gXqDetaqraM

[@TheJhong47]

@Vo2maxProductions thank you sage and good luck ❤️

[@garettkeller493]

I'd like to see a follow up video!

[@Vo2maxProductions]

it's coming!

[@EnoughBull]

You said you plan to start at 8 min pace, but started way faster. Lap 31 was few seconds short of 8 min, and you only hit the planned starting pace at lap 46. Strongly believe that if you started at 9 min pace you would've been able to finish the 24h with over 150 miles. Hope to see you finish a 24H, very tough race that's a different sport with a whole other set of variables. Good luck!

[@Vo2maxProductions]

Yeah I changed my plan/strategy in the momment due to reacting to conditions (although honestly I never have a strict "pure race split plan" unless i'm going for a pure time trial or OTQ marathon pace or something). So I reacted to the conditions (I thought it would be a "good idea" to "bank time" in the cool morning hours when the temps were in the 50s for the first few hours before the sun made things get up into the high 70s). I also was in 2nd place following another runner (who took it out faster!) and we did have a lot of 7:40/mile splits. I do regret that (more on a follow up video!), but at the same time I think it was going to be hard for me even if I went out at like 8:20/mile or 8:40/mile pace (more on that later!). For sure a humbling (and painful experience), but I was overly ambitious and thought I could get close to the American Record (which of course I certainly did not as I could only maintain that pace for about 12 hours!). I did want to try to place well and at the time I thought some sub 8s early on would be a good strategy for that (turns it out it was definitely not!). There were lots of mistakes made and lessons learned (The first one being that it is not at all like a trail-mountain ultra!). Long story short too: I'm currently on antibotics (again more on that later). Thanks!

[@EnoughBull]

@Vo2maxProductions Banking time early in a 24 race is always counter-productive, it works just like the marathon, you only make the last part of the race way harder. In fact, it's even more of a delicate ballance for a 24h, because the numbers are way larger and the body is more on edge. Doing it for the cool morning air just starts the overheating process earlier. Being in 2nd place or even in the top 10 early in a 24h is irrelevant; well, actually the only relevancy would be that the higher up a runner is in the standings in the first hours, the higher the chances he he will not win or be top 3. It really often works like that for the 24h. I would highly recommend reading Nick Coury's blog he wrote right after his record, am reading it myself over and over as I prepare for a 24h and a 48h; Nick really nailed something there after obssesing on it for years. Big fan, been following you for many years, always hoped you go for the 24h at some point, with the right approach, you can correct the US record no problem; only problem is, it takes people YEARS, to figure things out for timed races, they really are a different ball game. But you can short that process by, you know, taking from other champs experience. Good luck, Sage!!

[@DennisCanter]

Nearly two weeks with no race recap for the 24 hour run. I hope it did not go that bad. 🙁