Author Archives: paschapp

What is it like to put in 100 miles of running and walking in a day? 165,585 steps taken and 11,263 calories burned. HARD! I can easily say this was the hardest run to complete in my life! In this blog I share my experiences, what I learned, and describe how my day went. MyContinue reading “100 Miles Finished!”

It’s HERE! It’s the final few days before my first attempt ever at 100 miles! I have been tapering off on miles and battling a cold at the same time. My hope is to be healthy for Saturday’s ultra test of endurance! I am super excited but pretty nervous as well. It has been aContinue reading “100 Mile Run Week”

So, I’ve never really had “chafing” problems before. Most of my athletic career has been chafe free for the most part. However, training for ultra’s has brought this little problem to the forefront of things I have had to deal with. In this blog I discuss my personal struggles with chafing and what solutions IContinue reading “My battles with chafing”

If you are like me, running in the cold is not fun. It’s more clothes to put on, more laundry to do, and getting your layering right is sometimes a challenge. I usually start out cold and end up hot. I’ve ditched layers to the side of the road only to come back and findContinue reading “Cold Weather is coming….the dreaded treadmill time.”

This past week I did back to back marathons as part of my training for the 100 mile run coming up. On Friday I ran an easy 3:27:18 and then came back on Saturday and ran faster for a 3:07:14. Right now I am doing things on a weekly basis that is new and unchartedContinue reading “Back to Back Marathons”

Today I ran my first ever 50 mile run. It ended up being 50.57 miles in 7:47:59 (avg 9:15 per mile pace). Yes, this time includes all of my stops as I never stop the stopwatch. Therefore, my actually running pace was faster than 9:15 per mile. I got up at 1:51am and started preppingContinue reading “What does running 50 miles feel like?”

100 Miles? Yep, I am attempting my first ever 100 mile run on October 24th. This weekend I will run 25 miles on Friday and then 50 miles on Saturday as part of my training. The back to back long runs are meant to prepare me for the 100 miler but I know the biggestContinue reading “100 Miles?”

As an ultrarunner I have been learning how to burn more of my “fat” stores as energy on long runs. My hope is to incorporate this into my races in the future. Why burn fat? Well, the body has way more fat calories than it does glycogen calories. There are 3,500 calories in just 1Continue reading “Burning Fat and Carbs in Running”

I just recently did a 35 mile run. The next day I did a short shake out run and then followed that day with a no run day. However, on the third day I did an intense interval workout and total day of 18 miles. I look back on it now and it was tooContinue reading “Training With An Injury?”