About 45 seconds after Trista got home from Spider Mountain, her first 50k, she was signed up for her second 50k, a local (to her) trail race. I looked to see if there was anything in my area that I could do, so as not to suffer from Extreme FOMO, but the closest thing I could find was the Hell's Hills 50k, a few weeks later. Sold! I signed up. ( Read more... )

When Trista realized she wouldn't be able to come down for Bandera, Tejas Trails said they were happy to transfer her registration to another upcoming Tejas Trails race. We looked at our options, and the two that might have worked, schedule-wise, were J&J (formerly Nueces) and this weird new race called Spider Mountain. After offering both things ( Read more... )

Two events in one weekend! Both.. around Johnson City. That's a lot of driving and getting up early. But this was my last chance to get in a supported trail run before SwimRun Georgia, so I wanted to take advantage.

Matt was going to join me, but after hauling 100 lbs of bike+gear into the wind, uphill, all Saturday, his body was feeling a little ( Read more... )

Holy crap. This whole time I've basically been working on a 21 week training schedule, knowing that 21 weeks would take me up to race week. 21 was the magic number. And here we are, at the end of week 21 ( Read more... )

Well, this was certainly a dynamic week. I moved my Tuesday run to Monday, in anticipation of Tuesday's weather being terrible. And it was, and Austin shut down and I got to stay home from work. Yay! Then I did my Thursday run on Wednesday, just to give myself an extra recovery day before my big weekend. It was 18 for my Wednesday run. The coldest ( Read more... )

In our LAST last episode, I said I thought I was back to running now, after taking an entire week off to be sick. I was in a pretty bad place, mentally and emotionally. But good news! I AM back to running ( Read more... )

In our last episode, I said:

"I think I feel good. Other than I might have contracted Matt's cold or whatever illness is plaguing him. It's a lot to ask your body to run 50 miles in two days, and it's even more to ask it to prop up its immune system to fight off an illness that lives in the same house. We'll see. Play it by ear."Haha. Yeah. So ( Read more... )

Well, this was the big week. Weekend, anyway. The one I requested to add to my schedule early on, when I realized I'd need the confidence boost, not necessarily of a 50 miler, but of a longer back to back weekend than was on my schedule ( Read more... )

Backdating this one, because I'm posting it Tuesday. We just rolled back into town after spending a long weekend in Concan, TX for our annual family Christmas in Concan. Much fun was had by all, but that's fodder for this week, and this post is about LAST week ( Read more... )

My runs the last few weeks have been getting slower and slower, to the point where I finally just accepted that this amount of training was hard on my body and my paces were just going to be slower until I dropped my volume and started cross training more again. Evidently all I needed to do was just accept that and move on, because this week my ( Read more... )