Race Report: Sadlers Creek Stumble 36-hour Ultra

Well, I can say being overly ambitious was not a great idea for this event. Compared to last year I was much slower and felt a lot more destroyed at the end of this year's event. That being said, I also was less trained this year and not even sure I could achieve the 100k distance again so I'm not beating myself up over it! Plus due to small course changes, the overall distance was about 2 miles longer (~1/4 mi per lap) than last year so I was able to get a personal distance PR for a single event!

Lots of lessons learned, lots of things to improve, but overall another great time by Lake Hartwell for about 30 hours and of course fantastic times with ultrarunning friends. 😁

Some comparison charts from Garmin below... left side is this year, right side is last year. 

Interesting that the start temp was exactly the same, but I'm pretty sure it didn't get into the mid-80s last year. That heat was really a killer during the afternoon on Saturday and drastically impacted the pace.

More moving/elapsed time this year, but the added distance looks like it increased elevation gain overall too.

More running last year = slightly higher HR data overall.

Lap splits comparison. Had a good number of powerwalk laps this year which shows... a lot more in the ~17-min pace range vs. last year was definitely either a run lap or a walk lap. Not so sure the power walk helped this year, but was an interesting experiment. And again... the impact of the heat after the first 3 laps was evident this year.