I am always up for a challenge especially if it involves some physical form of activity. My Life List chronicles a large number of those challenges all pretty much checked off since completing the full marathon a few years back. With over 16 years of road running under my belt .. or should I say in my shoes, things were starting to get a bit stale. That prompted a new List entry – trail running (link here). Since I never know if a new endeavor is something that will stick or not, my standard operating procedure is to go big on the first one. That way, if I end up hating it, I can at least say I came I saw I conquered. Turns out trail running is something that will definitely stick. Some friends at work (the same one’s that told me about the Farmdale race) brought up another trail race that would truly test what I was made of. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you The Cry Me a River Half Marathon Trail Run.
As you can tell from the interesting swag shirt (my favorite racing color by the way), the half was the SHORTEST race option they had that day. They also provided a 50K, a 100k and the distance 99.99999% of runners consider the absolute insanity, the 100 miler. Linda currently has a “hell no” status for anything at or beyond 26.2 miles. Before going into this race I was probably on the same side of that argument .. more on that later.
Guessing you are not familiar with this race – yours truly wasn’t even aware it existed before a mere two months before the start of the race. Hell, I’d just run 13.1 miles on a hilly nightmare of a course, how much harder could it possibly be!?!
Hit the jump to read how this test of will turned out.
