After an impromptu kick-all-my-kitchen-wenches-out-to-climb-bath-rock (class 4) I pulled another friend and had the crew drop us off at the top of the half marathon loop so we could run opposite halves and meet at the start/finish. I didn't have time to clean the entire course but could sneak in half. Finished my half a bit early and ran back on the other loop pulling tags til I found friend Joe Crane. He was bonkinh hard and was confused by it. Maybe becuase he had raced the half marathon, taught 2 slack climbing clinics, sent his climbing project before I made him come out and clean the half marathon course? Maybe. lol. He even packed out an aid station (table, water jug, and box of food). I split his items and we hiked out the last couple miles.
On a side note, I need to do a blog post about being a co-founder of a 300+ person festival (4 days) and then being the only RD for a 10k and half marathon. By the end of Saturday I was more tired than after running 90 miles. It was so gratifying to see all the racers come in from the course after running MY trails. I call them MY trails because most people never leave the climber trails and see those portions of city of rocks, and most of the trails I've never seen footprints on (just cow pies!). The racers came in weary (2400 vert on a half!) and stunned with the beautiful trails they had run. Felt so happy that others were so satisfied with an aesthetic course that I created. :) Fufilling in a different way!
Didn't get all the miles I wanted this week (or many "real" runs or any long runs!) but glad I at least broke 80 miles during the week of the festival. What I didn't get in mileage training I got in exhaustion training....
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