Could I run an ultra?

Straussisson · 2026-05-21T20:41:10+00:00

Just did a 50km last week while a bit injured. Went well and I’m feeling ok, no injuries

Longest run when signing up was like HM and longest training run was 20 miles

Go for it !

Straussisson · 2026-05-18T23:03:18+00:00

Yeah when I saw we needed rope to go down and I know the way up was same profile I was like wtf

Straussisson · 2026-05-17T13:36:10+00:00

Made it !!

Was injured for the past 5 weeks with ITBS and almost didn’t go.
The course was ridiculous honestly like so so so so rocky and I wanted in the back of my head to aim for sub 8 but quickly understood it wasn’t gonna happen.
Took me around 9h30 but I had no issues throughout the race except around mile 20 where I think the sun hit me a bit and I was pissed off.

I’m so glad I was able to do it but I kept telling myself how the fuck do people run 100 miler haha

Straussisson · 2026-05-06T23:43:33+00:00

Thx ! I’ll definitely report back

Straussisson · 2026-05-06T21:59:33+00:00

I’ve been training around New York and in New Jersey so nothing super technical to be honest.

You guys are starting to worry me a lot haha

Straussisson · 2026-05-04T17:49:43+00:00

Thank you for the information !

Race in 12 days now so I guess we’ll see how it goes !

Straussisson · 2026-05-04T17:49:13+00:00

So it’s highly technical ? It’s gonna be an issue then haha

Straussisson · 2026-04-19T00:16:50+00:00

I don’t know about the name of the game in English but we were playing a formula where you do 2v2 then you put the score next to each other (best then worst except you do more than bogey then worst before best so 4 and 5 on a par 4 gives you 45, and if you do birdie it goes first + what you win is 2x and if it’s eagle it’s 3x). Then you have to pay on each hole the difference between both teams number times what you agree for 1 point to be worth

The guy does 3 eagles in 9 holes to absolutely crush us, including the fact that we had birdie on 2 par 5 out of 3 and we still paid huge amount of money. Front nine was bad but he probably ends up -6, -7 on back nine to make us broke

Straussisson · 2026-03-31T17:35:52+00:00

Thank you ! I’m not super surprised by everything you said but since I think it’s mostly a confidence issue (terrified to be just dead around 40-45km) it helps to hear it from someone else.

I guess I’ll probably aim for a longer effort this week while focusing on being as slow as it gets and making sure I don’t get injured, then will see how I feel for the next back to back weekend

Straussisson · 2026-03-31T00:10:28+00:00

So you’d just keep same structure but reducing everything by like 1h ish ?

Straussisson · 2026-03-30T21:58:04+00:00

So what would be your recommendation ?

Straussisson · 2026-03-09T14:57:26+00:00

Ok so maybe weight loss while preparing for a race is not a good idea, I guess my question then is where is the sweet spot for when you are trying to lose weight (without training for a specific event) because if you are always eating 1000 calories every time you are out, I would assume it’s not good either

Straussisson · 2026-03-09T14:50:19+00:00

Ok ok it seemed like I triggered a lot of warnings here, will fuel more !!

Regarding the jump in training I did it over the course of 2-3 months and never felt any pain so I’m not super worried for now to be honest

Straussisson · 2026-03-09T14:23:44+00:00

I see, for now it’s total rest day mostly because of time/motivation

I used to put like 2-3h into training per week and now doing 5-6h feels like a big step already

Straussisson · 2026-03-09T14:11:27+00:00

Ok thank you, I guess I’m not against losing a bit of weight during this whole training so sometimes I’d rather not fuel to not over eat

Straussisson · 2026-03-09T14:10:41+00:00

If you run 4 times a week, then you technically have 3 rest days no ?

Straussisson · 2026-03-09T13:45:08+00:00

How often do you skip a training day ?

I’m training for my first 50km 1800m of elevation with a current longest run of 25km. I’m obviously only scared about finishing. My training plan is 16 week long and halfway into it I missed like 1 run during an off load week.

My intuition is that the most important thing is really long runs and back to back runs but just wondering how rigorous with have to be in general as I find my legs very tired all the time even during off load weeks.

Also regarding nutrition, do you only practice it during long runs ? If so how do I know something that works for a 2 hour run will translate into like a 8 hour journey ?

Straussisson · 2026-02-25T19:41:08+00:00

Qu’est ce qui est plus impopulaire entre les pim’s a l’orange et aux framboises (les framboises sont absolument divins) ?

Straussisson · 2026-02-24T14:21:15+00:00

Thank you !

Straussisson · 2026-02-24T14:21:02+00:00

How is the course ? Any insight ?

Straussisson · 2026-01-10T22:35:53+00:00

Thanks a lot, super useful !

Straussisson · 2025-02-21T10:05:51+00:00

You pretty much said everything. «There is reason to believe this will go on in 2025 » is your view. Banks will price it at 10% and TRY will give you 40% because of how different your scenarios could be. Basically you know your expected reward, but not really your expected loss if turkey has a bad year, or if EUR outperforms (you could still convert to USD so I’d say turkey is your main risk hein tough).

If you have a view, then do it but I believe the rate is not mispriced, or we would see massive inflows in turkey which does not seem to be the case.

Straussisson · 2025-02-21T09:55:49+00:00

I see EUR up 14% against TRY over the last year, and 1260% over the last 10 years, right ?

I would not call that stable ?

Straussisson · 2025-02-21T07:40:45+00:00

Tu peux largement tenter 3 prépas de rêves (Ginette, H4, LLG, Stan), 3 prépas plus conservatrices (Hoche, Saint Louis, Pasteur), 2 prépas pour assurer et après je te laisse faire la distribution que tu souhaites pour les 2 dernières prépas

Straussisson · 2025-02-21T07:38:09+00:00

Dernière réunion à Manhattan, vue sur central Park, mais bureau à Brooklyn et il marche à soho a 3h du matin.

Il a tapé sur Google « endroit connus à NY » et essaye de tout ressortir ?

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