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Crazy Desert Trail Race

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Location:

TX,

Member Since:

Jan 19, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

I have completed 27 marathons. 

Utah Valley Marathon 2013: PR 3:16:20, 1st division.

Running With the Bulls 5k 2011: 20:02, 1st place

Race For The Cure 10k, San Antonio 2013: 42:47, 2nd overall

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run a sub 3:20 @ Air Force Marathon 2015.

Sub 20 min 5k

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run a 3(ish) hour marathon before I am 40. 

 

 

 

Personal:

1.  God

2.  Family 

3.  Running

Mother. Wife. Runner.  I chase stroller on the border of Mexico. 

Now is the time to run the race of your life!  Elaine Dalton  

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Nike Lunar Racer Lifetime Miles: 40.70
My TM Lifetime Miles: 838.35
Boston Blues Lifetime Miles: 146.00
Race: Crazy Desert Trail Race (13.1 Miles) 01:44:55, Place overall: 1
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
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It's always nice to find out that your camp site is right next to the race start line when you wake up in the morning.  We parked the trailer in the dark and had no idea where we were.  In the morning we looked over and the race start was across the way.  David and I decided on the half even though I didn't mention to him that it was a trail race.   We were also meeting up with some friends from Abiliene that we met in pilot training.

Really low-key race.  There was a 50k, marathon, 1/2 marathon and 10k.  The course was pretty forgiving comparing it to other West Texas races.  I have wanted to do this trail race for a long time and the timing was on because we had David's parents in town to watch Naomi and they had their gigantic trailer in tow.  My goal was to set the course record 1:41 I believe.  You just can't gauge a trail race until you start going.

Race started and I easily put myself in the front of all the ladies and I knew there was a good chance I would take this race. I paced myself between two men for the first two miles and then I was off at three miles.  There was a really big hill that I had to slow down to about walking pace around mile 3.5.  There weren't too many technical aspects to the race.  The trail did a lot of weaving and it had some rocky spots.  Tons of cacti throughout.  There were times I thought if I tripped I would surely end up in a cactus of some sort.  

I didn't trip and I didn't get the course record.  It was pretty dang challenging.  My prize... A box of Girl Scout Cookies.  I was pretty darn dissapointed in the prizes.  The guy won the 1/2 with a 1:20 and a course record, pretty dang fast for a box of cookies.  I was happy we did the race, I think David didn't enjoy it as much as I did, he was 3rd with a 1:36. 

Cool race, would I do it again? No.  

Found out that I have the course record now for the females. hahaha

NB V4 Blue Miles: 13.10
Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Derunzo on Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 16:53:52 from 73.218.33.75

Congrats on your first place win! No cacti before Boston.

From Burt on Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 16:57:18 from 71.223.40.58

Funny report, tiny dancer. Nice job on the win!

From SlowJoe on Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 14:55:28 from 12.182.148.249

Congrats on the win, Bec - sounds like a lot of fun! Kinda.

When I lived in Abilene, I won a race once and got a jar of gumballs...crappy prizes must be a W TX thing.

From Kam on Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:29:14 from 68.66.163.179

What kind of girl scout cookies?

From Bec on Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 19:34:30 from 70.115.197.197

joe, hahaha! Yeah, pretty sure it's a W TX thing. Last trail run I won a metal donkey, that was A LOT cooler.

Kam- PB, so it was ok. :/ David wanted me to get the little lemon ones because he had already picked out some PB ones too. They didn't even have Samoas or thin mints. The RD probably ate them, I felt like his prizes were an after thought anyway. Maybe he would have saved the good ones?

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