7 laps at antelope backyard ultra

Javelina 2025

🥇Napa Lapa 3 hour

Sunset & Cider 🥈

12th OA and 3rd AG at Berkeley 35k

HELL TO THE YEAH! Sub-22 achieved! Detailed race report available at https://running.nillsf.com/posts/2025javelina/ 

But, let me summarize it for Strava!
First, thank you to Jakob Walter, Kelly Peeters , Jen Brackett and Alex Wild  for all the support, all the crewing and all the pacing! Thank you guys so much!

About my race: the race went about as well as it could have gone. Some ups, some downs, but overall I had a good run.
Lap 1: all systems go. Great lap, 4 hours for a lap, 16 minutes faster than last year.
Lap 2: First of the downs hit me, but I recover after Jackass Junction and do another 4 hour lap (note, this lap is about 3 miles shorter than the first one, so there is some slowdown in here)
Lap 3: Huge low point at the 50 mile mark. I suspect hyponatremia/overhydration, I eat a salt tab, drink less and then 1 hour later recover.
Lap 4: First lap with a pacer. Jakob Walter pushes me hard. He knows what he's doing, and we end up running way more than I though I could.
Lap 5: Final lap, now with Kelly Peeters. She also pushed me hard. Lap 5 is only 8 minutes slower than lap 4. And it bring me in under 22 hours.

If you want the detailed blow-by-blow, head on over to https://running.nillsf.com/posts/2025javelina/ . 

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12th OA and 3rd AG at Berkeley 35k

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