Swamp Stomper 50K
Swamp Stomper 50k Recap 1/20/2019 GDR is 10 weeks out. Going into this race I still needed a 50k for a prerequisite for the Georgia Death Race. I like to add races into my training block for the longer runs. I really didn’t plan to taper at all for this race since it’s basically just another long run. With my ankle giving me issues for the previous two weeks I ended up tapering anyways. So I went Into the race pretty fresh, or so I thought. My previous 50k PR was around 7 hours and 50 minutes. Even with my ankle still bothering me, I thought I should be able to run faster than that pretty easy. I had some really good long runs leading up to the race and felt my fitness level was good. The forecast for the race had been changing all week prior and it started to look like we might catch a break for race day. It was going to rain all week, the temperature was going to drop the day before the race, and race day was going to be cold, but sunny. 23 degrees was the