Tale of the run by muscleontherun

This was unexpected offcourse, not seeing the elite runners around leads to such erratic wins I suppose. Nevertheless, the job has to be done and this was one of the pre-covid runs that had to be done in 100km category before I could head to LAULTRA 111kms.  Since this run was postponed by a onther year or so, coming back to it and doing a 100km now was out of question. Obvious reasons being the daunting loop of 10kms in the midst of a bamboo forest trail. Hence, I used the past registration fee to sign up for a 50km run which lead to running the loop 5 times and it did hit me quite hard this time mentally. Having done the Khardungla Challenge and the Ladakh Half Marathon, I did not really put in those practice miles before Hennu Bamboo Ultra. However, the weight and strength training continued mildly.  The run literally turned in to a wake up call for all those dormant muscles.  The routine BIB pickup a day before the run lead to some anxiety of pulling off t...