I don't know, with clients, how do you try to frame that with people as far as like missed days and the mentality around it?

It's definitely a twofold thing where like these workouts are important.

These training runs are important because they're building towards your greater goal, whatever that may be.

And so they're structured in a way that, yes, if you hit every single one, ideally, you'll be completely ready for that race.

But there's also... that balance with everything else happening.

And so if something needs to be changed, then the first thing you look at is, can I change this workout to fit within my schedule? So I'm still getting something, but maybe I don't have the full time to go do the 12 miler that day.

So how can we replace that with something that'll give a similar result without taking up that same amount of time.

So what did it look like for you? How much did you run? How much did you sleep? Did it go to plan? And how were you able to get those 637 miles in six days? It's

How are you managing this?

Um, so I've done it both ways.

I've done it where I've showed up a couple of days before the race and actually run, um, two days after, um, it was not a six day, it was a hundred miler, but I have done it that way.

And it did work out great.

Like I felt great throughout the race.

I had a wonderful race.

Um, and then I've did it like in Hungary, we went over three weeks early, adjust it to the, to the time difference.

It sounds like no matter what, but what are you doing mentally to be ready to start this thing that basically your mind can't comprehend how far, how long you're going to be running? Yeah.

Like what, what is that in you? Like, how did you learn to do that? Like what, what are you like, what's, what's going on? Um,

so I don't know if it was, uh, it, I, I did a few, uh, timed events early on.

Um, and my first one, I made a lot of errors that, um, had a lot of learning curves.

Second one, I did a little better.

Um, but what I kind of learned over time is that I'm out, I'm out there for a duration.

So like in a six day, I'm out there for six days.

Um, and in the beginning it's gonna, it should feel easy because I have this long time to go.

Not a consistent.

... setting world records?

Well, first off, our, our time in the Whites was a blast.

Um, running for me has always been very much of a passion, and I pursue, um, things that, uh, in running that I am very excited about.

Um, and I, I was a late in life starter when it came to running.

It was...

I didn't start, uh, competitively running, um, until I was 29.

I entered my first half-marathon, um, and quickly escalated, um, into running ultras and running 50Ks, 100Ks, and continuing to see, um, if I could go just a little bit further, um, distance-wise or, uh, time-wise, be out there a little bit longer.

Mm-hmm

Yeah

...

I'm actually coming up on my, uh, 10th year.

I'll finish my 10th year of racing in, uh, December, which is super exciting, 'cause I've been doing it for a decade now.

Um, and I got into it because of my husband.

So he really, we were dating at the time and we'd just started dating, and he was in, uh, signing up for a half-marathon and was really, really excited about it, and asked me if I wanted to go.

And I was doing two miles, like, every other day at that point in time.

What'd you learn from it? What'd you take from it to the world record?

Sure

... field, right? Um, when I really kinda noticed that, hey, I might be decent at these distances, is I might be, um, decent at, like, racing in general, was probably more along the lines of when I went back to snow drop the second year after the 190.

I go back, go a second year.

Um, that year I thought I started out too fast, but I'm like, I'm just gonna go with this anyways.

Um, and ended up qualifying for the 24-hour team and also getting like 218 miles, I believe.

And after that year, I'm looking back and I, um, post-race, and I, I noticed all these areas that I had improved from one year to the next.

And that's when I started thinking, well, maybe I'm kinda good at this.

Um, going into the race, the mental preparation of like how do I get through day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, um, how do you prepare yourself to handle the ups and downs of that? I'm sure some days feel like, "Oh, that was a great day," and some days feel like, "I don't know that I can complete this day." How do we talk ourselves through that?

So in your first six day, like how did, what was it and how did it go? Was it, it was six days at the dome, right?

It was six days at the dome.

Um, it was an incredible first six day.

It did not go according to plan at all.

Um, I definitely went in, I had a great first 24 hours.

I go into day two and I start having some like nerve abductor issues and my legs giving out.

Um, I'm not able to really even run a loop like I'm running, but my legs giving out.

And how much did you have to, did you have to tweak?