Saturday morning completed my three week block of racing. This little beauty is called the Waco Trail 5-0. 5-0 meaning 50k. This trail event is put on by Tim Neckar who is an accomplished endurance athlete so I was expecting it to be a well ran race.
I was able to car pool with Matt and [...]

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(In case you haven’t read part 1, check out Cross Timbers Race Report - 2008 Part 1.)

“…Go!” (Something like that.)
The run started on a road for a very short distance before we connected onto the trail. Of course the race started with an uphill grade.
Once in the woods, the route was a singletrack path that [...]

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As mentioned in my previous post, the Cross Timbers 26 mile trail race was quite a day and it all started at 4:15 am on Saturday as I slowly crawled out of bed to get ready for my first race start of the season. I had laid out most of my clothes and nutrition needs [...]

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I am starting to get a bit excited for the first race start of the season for me. I will be running in the CrossTimbers 26 mile trail run.
Conditions look to be pretty good for this time of year which basically means NO RAIN. Yippee! It looks like temps will start in the mid 30s [...]

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Saturday was my first trail run of the year and couldn’t have picked a better day. Sunny - low wind - 50’s - air felt fresh and clean - low humidity! It was one of those wow days. I was looking forward to see how the body would respond to the subtleties of the trail [...]

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I am pretty excited to focus on running this year which will include both road and trail running.
I really would like to improve my trail running and grow from my rookie races and mistakes from last fall. The Boston marathon is also going to be extremely special as it will be my first time participating [...]

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