Bandera Practice Run

How can you not enjoy running out here? it's rough, it's tough, but the beauty ot the Texas hill country is second to none. Especially this time of year, when the Texas red oaks are changing colors.

Met up with several other to run down in Bandera yesterday morning. Muz and I decided on 30 miles or more, with a time cutoff of 6hours. We ran all over the place trying to hit every hill on the Bandera course. Below is a photo of Ice Cream hill, which in my opinion is the toughest climb out there. It's not as steep as some of the others, but it's longer and has more step ups. And for some reason, they always put it at a difficult time in a race.

The day went fine until 20 miles in where i got really light headed and felt like i was going to faint if in continued on. We had been running at a pretty fast rate all day, but that was not the problem. We had just finished a loop, and I had reloaded with calories and fluids.

I'm pretty sure the whole Thanksgiving thing was the reason. I hardly ever eat sweets, and over Thursday and Friday I ate many many sweet things, including several servings of pie, and sweetpotato/marshmallow dish. Pretty sure that's what killed me.

We ended up with 25.5 miles, so I'm not going to call it a failure as this week has been loaded.

Running up Sky Island

Running along a trail at my 'cruising speed". Seeing Muz' leg turnover gives you a good idea of what we're doing.

Decided to not run this morning, and just call it a week with a hard Tuesday 13 mile run, a 10 mile wednesday, 24.5 miles on Thursday, then 25.5 yesterday.

73 miles total.

Next week is a rest week, then another hard week next week capped off with a 40 mile run in Bandera on Saturday.