BMF Coach Steve's Running Stuff

                             OUTLAW 135   Running is stupid. Ultra running is stupider. 100M+ is stupidest. Now that we have that out of the way, here's a look at my 135 mile race experience from the origins thru training and then the race itself. 2020 COVID limited my ultra racing, so I chose to only run races I felt that I could manage safely and those that would contribute to my goal race, Black Hills which was reset to 2021 from the 2020 cancellation. I knew the Outlaw course was difficult, having run the Dark N Dirty 50K, but I wasn't sure how difficult the 100M and 135M would be compared to other hard mountain races like LOVIT100M and Black Hills 100M. I signed up for the 2020 Outlaw 50M and used the Athens-Big Fork marathon and Ouchita Switchbacks 50K as final training races leading up to it. The Outlaw 50M would be a major training race for the Black Hills 100 in June. I had attempted Black Hills 100M twice and DNF'd both prior attempts. I thought I had moved past t