DNF Number Three This Year - 28 Miles in 7:07 DQ for being too slow. Day 20 Taking Train

Well this past weekend I went up to Duluth, MN, which is a great area on Lake Superior.  I drove 8 hours to participate in the Voyageur Trail 50 Miler and was kicked out at mile 28 for being to slow.  The course was incredible; tough and beautiful, but I just didn't have the legs or the smarts to eat during the run which left me dead on my ass at the turn around.  I barely made the cut off time at 25 and missed the 28 mile cut off time at 7:07.  Here are my sorry splits:

2011/07/30

9:13

11:54

12:25

12:44

11:12

10:37

9:17

14:56

11:39

12:33

17:54

16:06

18:21

16:16

12:40

20:21

14:27

15:34

17:51

17:34

18:07

15:32

14:50

15:05

16:54

20:49

23:21

19:12

28 mi

7:07:39

ave 15:15

ave HR 147

Well I need to do some more long running.  I haven't reported my monthly miles, but here they are and you will get a better picture why I'm not doing so well this year: 

11-Jan	232.8
11-Feb	52.8
11-Mar	178.1
11-Apr	220.5
11-May	155.6
11-Jun	217.2
11-Jul	126.5
11-Aug	11.2

Also, even when I get larger miles for the month they are mostly broken up runs; really nothing over 10 miles in training this year; so I guess I have no one to blame but myself.  Still why do I keep signing up for this humiliation?  I have yet one more time to be humiliated and that is at the NorthCoast 24 Hour Race on 17 Sep.  Look for about 35 miles for a whole 24 hours if I keep up this same type of performance. 

I've taken on one more race; 32 miles on Aug 20th, maybe I'll do better at that race, and I'll have the recent pain of Voyageur in the bag as practice.