Hi,

Obviously it’s impossible for anyone to tell me what I will or won’t be capable of a year from now over the internet but I want to make sure my plan doesn’t seem obviously dumb.

Quick background. I have no real running experience before this year but I’ve spent the last 15+ years backpacking in the Cascades and Olympics. I love long hard days in the mountains and caught the mountain running bug after spending the first half of the year training for Mt Rainier following the guidelines in TftNA.

I just started a new training cycle with my sights set on the Chuckanut 50k as my first ever race. I’ll have about 26 weeks of Base+specific training before race weekend and my goal was to treat it as an A race and really go for it. Now I’m kind of eyeing the Bigfoot 40 Mile (43 miles w/ ~9,000′ of gain) in the beginning of August since I’ve always wanted to do the whole Loowit trail and circumnavigate St Helens.

Would it be completely stupid to treat Chuckanut as a B/C race, take a week or two off after and spend the next ~18 weeks training for Bigfoot given my relative inexperience with mountain running?

Thanks!