beautiful

Got my ass kicked good at the J&J 50k Saturday!!  I had no idea the difficulty of the course.  I figured I'd be finishing in 7-7:30.  Oh hell no, 8:36 was my finishing time and that was great relative to everyone else running.  I finished 17th of 44 starters.  If not for my foot issues I'd have been at least 30 minutes faster.  I'm really not complaining though.  It was a beautiful, beautiful course.  Ever since we drove the 3 sisters roads with Sam and Val several years ago I've wanted to run what was formerly the Nueces Trail races.  I'd never run it before mostly due to the logistics with the remoteness of Camp Eagle.  Misty and I have now vowed to never miss it again.  We'll make a long weekend of it and stay Saturday night after the races are over.