Nick Coury
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

I struggle a bit to boil down the recommendation from my own experience, as it might apply to others in a 100 (especially since most have a lot more running than Hardrock).

If I had to distill it and generalize it, I would start something like this:

  1. ALWAYS stay below the yellow line in a 100. That’s the pace where you can go all day, all night, and all day again.
  2. The yellow line is a lot slower than you think, and way slower than you’ll ever intuitively feel is right.
  3. You can validate you went easy enough early on when you can go just as fast in absolute pace (terrain adjusted) for the final 1/2 or 1/3 of the race.

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