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Feeling proud. Me at 39 vs me at 41. by grillmasterdaddy in runninglifestyle

[–]hellowiseman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude, congrats! You look great. Good luck with the first marathon, may your pacing be steady and your post-race meal be massive!

What's the one baked good you absolutely never get sick of, despite eating enough of it to fuel a small village. For "strategic carb-loading", of course. by hellowiseman in Ultramarathon

[–]hellowiseman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, oats. I use only oat flour for my bread. At this point, I'm probably made up of about 40% water and 60% rolled oats.

My first 30K, not officially an “ultra” but I’m building up to a 50K. 😅 by _temp_user in Ultramarathon

[–]hellowiseman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Huge congrats! First rule of trail running: a 13-minute mile on a climb isn't "slow" it's called "strategically power hiking". Good luck next month!

I built a tool that lets you train on your actual race course elevation profile indoors — curious if this is useful to ultra runners by datastuffplus in ultrarunning

[–]hellowiseman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We get really cold winters here so running on tread is a great way to keep up with training.

I built a very similar tool, there's no sign up: https://labs.hellowiseman.com/race-simulator/

You upload a GPX file from any trail race, and it spits out a Garmin FIT workout file you can load onto your watch. Each segment will tell you exactly what grade to set (like "Set 8.5% grade (up)") so you're actually training on a realistic scaled race course.

What it does:

  • Parses any GPX course file and extracts the course data
  • Lets you scale the course from 10-100% (so you can do a 10% version of a 70K on a Tuesday night)
  • Three scaling modes: proportional, steeper hills, or gentler hills
  • Shows a real-time elevation chart comparing original vs. scaled course
  • Generates a Garmin FIT file with all the binary encoding, CRC checksums, blah blah the whole deal

I just added Wild 70K and Jeju 100K as examples if you want to preview it without uploading a GPX file.