Bush Running

I am in a bit of a quandry.

I was absolutely stoked about my Ironman race, and expected that it would a long road back to recovery properly, but the gap between recovery and getting prepped for the next 2 events seems to have shrunken to almost nothing.

I've got the Wild Endurance 50km through the blue mountains in 6 days time and I'm not nearly ready for it. I have grave doubts about my ability to do the North Face 100km two weeks after that. I must have the endurance base still in my body, but I certainly don't have the legs to run 100km through crazy hilly terrain. I feel like I might be lucky to actually finish as my training has been virtually non-existant, I haven't done a single bush run proper (Spit to Manly trail doesn't count!) or any run over about 3 hours. I haven't seen any of the course, run at night, tried running with a full packpack with all the gear I need to carry, etc etc.

Screw it, I'm still going to give it a nudge. I want to do this event and I can always rest afterwards as I've got no other events planned for a while. Perversely, even with all this apprehension, I'm really looking forward to the race!