Jan 7, 2012 Bandera 25k Race Report

I was signed up for the 50k but was lacking in my long runs, plus it was going to be a warm sunny day so I dropped down to the 25k at packet pickup.

I started out towards the front of the race with Jon since I didn't want to get bottle necked on the early downhills. I was able to avoid some of that, but the downside to this was that I was getting passed the whole race so felt like I was in last place.

I ran hard, walked a lot of the hills where I would get passed. Need to practice walking hills faster. I then would pass everyone on the downs. There were a couple of very fun downhills - wheee. A few of them that had sotol on the sides, making it hard to pass.

I was able to run most of the flat section between crossroads and lucky. I had no gas left after coming down Lucky's to sprint it in. I got passed by a couple of people here.

I lost Jon near the beginning of the race and wouldn't see him again. He ended up finishing 3 minutes before me.

I really should have drank and ate more during this run. Drank less then 2 water bottles, ate 2 gus and 2 fig newtons.

Finishing time: 2:54:18