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  • gotmyfloaties@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just learned this afternoon that Trail marathons are a thing (not ultras, 20 miles). They’re clearly not as popular as the road marathons.

    Anyone ran any recently? Do you have a preference?

    • Seldaren@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I did a trail 50K in March that was a Marathon/50K, where there was a decision point for folks to decide if they wanted to do 31 or 26. I personally did the 31 (more like 33.9, hah), but some folks stopped at 26.

      There are number of ultra challenge things in my area that are multi-loop type things. Many folks don’t make it over 26.

      Specifically there’s a 5-hour challenge in Feb that I might do, hoping I can do enough loops to hit 26 before getting timed out.

      Trail races are different from road races obviously. Potentially more elevation change, more technical, potentially stream crossing… etc. Not exactly something to go in expecting to get a PR (if you’ve done road races).