Sometimes Things Don't Go As Expected
This year I haven't done much racing and it's been kind of nice just running and enjoying myself. I did Two Oceans Ultra Marathon in South Africa in April. For fun weekend getaway I signed up for a trail 50k in Lake Tahoe. I am not much of a trail runner but I looked at race photo's and this didn't look like it was very technical. Looks can be very deceiving because I did it last weekend and it was extremely technical. A few months prior to the race I had a pretty bad fall on a trail and gashed my hand pretty bad. Since I am a massage therapist it put me out of work for about a week. I decided to stay away from trails and just run the road but still wanted to do the race in Tahoe. I figured I had the fitness and if the trails were easy I would be OK . I trained on roads before for a 50 miler in San Francisco that was on mostly gravel trails. This run in Tahoe turned out to have very technical trails with lots and lots of climbing a...