Running

Hmm, I'm doing that race too, and haven't started training yet. It'll be interesting seeing how the two different approaches work.

Yes, very. I'm always interested in this kind of stuff. But IIRC didn't you mention a few pages back that you have a fair bit of ultra experience (Al Andalus?)? My training is motivated in large part by the worry that I have zero experience and although I have some (LD-Tri) base fitness, I lack running miles. I've still never run more than a marathon in one go.

As it stands after 3.5months of dedicated run training I'm actually pretty confident in my fitness levels, but as a friend of mine put it:

Running 100 miles.. fitness is only about 2% of it. Nutrition is about 10%. The great unknown is about 88% of it. Of that, pacing is important. Get it wrong and you'll fail.

Its the 98% that I'm now anxious about :)

Ankle a bit sore this morning so I'll take the next couple of days off and then I hop on a series of planes for the next 2 weeks so not much opportunity to train.