This Saturday was the first of 2 Trail Monster Fat Ass races this Winter. It was a lot of fun and there was a ton of great food at the aid station.
The course had to be changed up, since the recent snowstorms had completely blocked the trail we were going to use, but the course we wound up going on worked out really well. It was a 5 mile out and back loop up and down Hedgehog Mountain in Freeport.
Other than a field with 3 stream crossings (that you had to go over 6 times per loop) the footing wasn’t too bad.
I was out for about 3 hours and did 3 of the 6 loops, plus a shorter out and back that didn’t involve going through that field again to run a bit over 17 miles total. There were 3 people that ran all 6 loops, plus 1 that had over 50k if you count his 13 mile run on the roads to get there.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time going into extensive detail, since there are already quite a few great race reports (linked below). Everybody was tasked to come up with a haiku, though, so I’d like to share a few of those which give you a pretty good idea of what it was like:
Trail Monsters Running
Bloody legs and some chaffage
PBR Waiting
– Jim
Schedule said eighteen
Had to run one more than Jim
Mission accomplished
– Emma
charge up Hedgehog hill
stomp across the Field of Death
stretch on sunny deck
– Dora
Special thanks to Katie and her mother for manning the aid station, laying out all the goodies, and especially for the delicious soup! Not a bad thing to come back to every 5 miles…
Looking forward to joining us for the next one? It will be the last weekend in March at Bradbury Mountain. Stay tuned for details.
LOL… Those are funny. It’s too cold to be running up there already 😉
Already? Who stopped?
And it’s actually been pretty warm the last couple of months. Plenty of days with the temperatures going above 20, and many that are in the 30s or even 40s.
Running is my hobby too. I’m running 3 circles per 800 m per day.