Lost soul 100k "You're in!"

Lost soul ultra "You are "In"!".  We are officially accepted, I also payed to make it totally official!  I capped the weekend off with a half marathon run.  I felt good through out, legs at least.  My stomach said otherwise as I had one small pulled pork sandwich hours before and despite it being delicious it made my stomach unhappy to run!  I survived with only a couple walk breaks near the end.  At least the weather(-13) and footing were both good.  That finished off a nice 80km week with a bunch of climbing.  I'll get the two badges from strava again and also 3000km for the year.  Only beaten that once on strava in 2013.

So I'm excited to get training for Lost soul 100k.  Three key things I know I need to work on for next years ultra:

1. More long runs, this may seem obvious as with a 100k run you can never have too many long runs.  With the young family this is the one thing I struggle with and I need to try and find time to get out more often for these long ones.  My body will appreciate it come race day.

2. Steep hikes, the hills in Lethbridge are short but steep.  Hiking hills, but I need to train them as much as I possibly can.  During short lunch runs, as well as add them to my long run.  Simulate the transition from running to steep hiking, and back to running.

3. Transition, I already mentioned this as part of 2, but it's important enough to mention as it's own point.  On many of the steep climbs I simulate the hill as I run them during the race.  Start off running into the climb, sense when to switch to hiking(so my heartrate doesn't spike too much), then as soon as I hit the top and the flats switch back to running and recover while running slowly.

4. More kms if possible, more time on my feet.  I did well last year, I did as much as I could, but I'll def. try to do more.  Nuff said!

5. Nutrition, I did pretty well here last year, but it still needs fine tuning and also when I get to the race I need to plan it out better.  Some of the aid stations we ran into, I felt lost, so many options, didn't know what I wanted.  I need to plan so I know exactly what to get/do.  Then if some craving pops up, I can always change.

Here's to 2020, lets go run!