I had to work till 11pm on Saturday night, so by the time I got home and in bed I only got about 4hrs sleep before my alarm went off. I felt OK when I got up I didn't feel too tired, made some coffee had some oatmeal, then off I was to the RI 6hr ultra. I rolled into the parking lot and picked up my race number and got ready for a nice 6hr run. Couldn't have asked for better weather cool and sunny at the start.
We all lined up at 8am and off we went, my plan was to run 9:2* min. miles just nice and steady. I carried a hand bottle an a few gels and salt tabs. I kept telling myself you need to drink got to stay on top of this I was drinking HEED, and planned on taking a salt tab every 45mins. It was going as planned until I hit about 13miles then I started to feel off. My stomach went south, but even more concerning was the fact my body was just totally dumping water. I could not figure out what was going on I was drinking plenty of fluid and taking my salt, but soon I was starting to cramp. At 4hrs into the race I was about to drop out when I saw by kids cheering me on and that gave me a boost to keep going. For the final 2hrs I switched to drinking just water and didn't eat anything else. I got a second wind and started to feel much better, but my legs were trashed from the cramping. I suffered through and ended the day running a total of 29.77miles, it was less than I had planned but glad I had the mental toughness to keep going when everything was going wrong.
I think I may have drank to much so my body started to expel the fluid and salt leading to my cramping and stomach issue lesson learned
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