We had a plan! Trista and I would do the 25k trail race at Bandera. It would be great, tough training for Rockman! It would be be Trista's first time doing Bandera! It would be my first time actually running Bandera with someone else! It would .. actually be the first time Trista and I would do a running race of any kind together! (We've only ever
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I'd done the Bandera 25k twice in the past. It was hilly, it was rocky, it was hard, and I'd never finished it thinking, "Man, I'd love to go out there and do another loop!"
Unlike last year, this year I was actually excited about running Bandera! A little micro roadtrip with the husband, a chance to test out how the puppies would do if someone else were taking care of them, and I had actually enjoyed running Bandera last year, so I was looking forward to doing it again.
I really didn't want to do this race. I didn't want another weekend out of town where we had to figure out something to do with the pets. I hadn't been trail running at all. I'm not a good technical trail runner, and Bandera's technical. And tough. I've never raced out there, but Robyn and I ran out there, and I remember the hills where we didn't
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