Friday, January 09, 2009

Run Forest, Run!

I’m sitting in the Albuquerque airport along with the GeekGrl and several other New Mexican ultrarunners, and some soon to be newly minted New Mexico ultrarunners (Pirate & Mo), getting ready to depart for the Bandera 100K. Bandera is supposed to be one of the tougher trails in Texas but is also supposed to be a really great race. It is put on by a Hardrock veteran and well know Texas ultrarunner, Joe Prusaitis.

I can really only hope that my training has been sufficient because I have really had to walk a fine line between getting in my mileage and making sure that I recovered from the late season knee injury that kept me from finishing my last two ultras. I think I am ready but I approach the ultra distance with a great deal of respect and don’t take anything for granted. Having said that I do think I’ll finish, I need to finish this race, I need an ultra comeback.

The funny thing is I really did decide to do this race because I really like the buckle. Yes, I admit it, I am simple enough that I will actually put myself through 100K of Texas hill country, rocks and cactus just to get something cool to fasten my belts.

13 comments:

  1. Good luck!

    And I have always wondered how one puts a belt buckle on a belt... Mine are all sewn on so is there belt disassembly required to put on a cooler buckle?

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  2. Buckle up!! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

    Best of luck to you, Geek Girl, Pirate, and all the others taking on the Bandera challenge.

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  3. Ooooooooh! So pretty! I covet the buckle!

    Have a great run!

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  4. Good luck to you! You've been training at altitude, so you should be just fine in the Texas Hill Country.

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  5. You talk like running for the buckle is a bad thing. :) Best of luck and we'll be looking for a good report.

    Danielle, you need a belt that accepts buckles. It will have clasps or snaps that open to swap buckles. You need one.

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  6. I'm doing a race tomorrow that I am woefully underdone for, so I can get the t-shirt (and enough points to have a crack at the series title....)
    have a great race SB!

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  7. Best wishes to you!

    That photo makes me think that Tom Hanks was a pretty good runner back in the day. I wonder...

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  8. Run Brian run!!
    Give us a report soon..

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  9. Good luck out there. Hopefully everything goes well.

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  10. That is a cool buckle.

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  11. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. See my posts on rules and criteria for entering a race.

    p.s. - good job! You did great!

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  12. ok Brian, you know you are "killing" your readers in making us wait for a race report...

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  13. Good luck on all your crazy goals. That's so funny because all my friends &
    co-workers think I'm crazy for training for Irons. But you my friend are in a
    whole other category. You definitely work in the right field;)

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