Adventure Racing?????

Lee did it again. It was Lee who talked me into running a race on a bike trail, Battle at Big Creek. Now he has convinced me to register to run the Twisted Ankle half marathon. Perhaps I'm overly protesting. The truth is I'm excited about the race. It will be a completely new event for me, and Lee, too. I have been out for daily runs in the state park that will host the race and know it to be very rugged terrain.

Here we are mid-winter and it's time to train for the race. More than increasing mileage, I need to run on hills, mountains and uneven surfaces with some regularity. Sounds like more fun than the law allows. I know it's what has to be done. I've started mapping out days for long runs, as well as planning runs in hilly root bound places and a couple of hour and half trips up to the site of the actual route.

Now with all the logistics in place I need to get about the business of running.

Run new races.

Tom

Post Script-

I wrote this piece many weeks ago. The race has come and gone. Oddly enough neither one of us actually participated. Ah, the best laid plans…….