Excellent 5ish mile run this morning!! Shan, Mark and I ran the Mopac- Congress loop in 48:17. Shan and Mark were both unable to run tomorrow on our usual Thursday and I'm early guy on Wednesday mornings so we had to make due with the shorter loop. I really enjoyed the shorter loop. We were running 30 secs per mile faster than our usual 7.4 mile loop so I could really feel a difference. I really liked it for a change, felt like a real runner. I'm going to suggest that we run the faster shorter loop and then add on a couple of super easy miles as a cool down. That'll be a nice change I think my running pals and palletes will like.
There's been a thread going on on the Tejas Trails FB page the last couple of days in regards to ultra runs getting too big and overloading the trails. That got me to thinking about something I've always wrestled with a bit. Take the ego out of participating in events and just run for the sake of running. No events, no races, just run. I've never been brave enough to actually do it and I probably won't be anytime soon. Races give me the motivation to train (play), eat right (some of the time) and spend time with the few people I still know at races.
Another thing that really bothers me is the prices of races these days. Lots of events now have numerous distances, 50 mile, 50k, 25k and even 10k. Lets say the 50 mile costs 90.00. It seems a bit unfair to me that the 50k that is 19 miles shorter and is 80.00 and even more unfair that the 25k is 70.00!! The 25k people are going to consume very little if anything at all at the aid stations. So basically they are paying for a shirt and finishers medal that may have cost the RD 15.00 That's gouging plain and simple. It's become a business and I don't like it at all.
There are few races I may continue to participate in because I have a history I'd like to continue but in the future I'm going to be very selective about the races I enter. I may even try to come up with my own special personal events to get ready for.
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