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There's a switch, You just turn it "off" The rest is conditioning the body to withstand the distance with lots of shorter runs and sprints.
I've done three marathons, several TRIs, and a gob of 5K, 10K, 15K, and 20K races....Just on pavement.
I've found that after about three to five...
**UPDATE**
Completed the run in 2:36:34.
I have only hiked the trails that made up the course before today. Never thought about RUNNING it.
I admit I DID have to walk up the steep parts, that's where the extra 30 minutes came from. THe rest I keep about a 10 min mile pace.
Tomorrow at 0700 I will begin a 20K trail race. The 20K isn't the issue as I run all the time anyway. The deal is that it's a TRAIL race. It takes place in my favorite place, Mission Trails Regional Park.
The race starts easy enough, nice flat grasslands, for about 1.5K then goes up and up for...