Jubilee 10K Trail Run 2008

Ok, I’ll get to my performance: I sucked. It took me 1:12 to “run” 10K on muddy trails; ok, truth be told, I “ran” about 4.5-5 miles of it and walked; the only non uphill that I didn’t run was a longish “walkable” stretch across a field where I just wanted to stretch my legs.

But you know what? No injury pain, and I had a blast. There was a never ending hill, a log that you had to climb over, two significant stream crossings, mud puddles and shoe sucking mud.

It took about a mile or two to sort things out (where I said goodbye to a few runners) and ran off and on with 2-3 more the rest of the way.

Note: the winner ran about 35 minutes.

Injury: the leg/butt/piriformis/hip all feel a tiny bit sore but ok; I’ll see what I’ll do at Railroad Days (walk with Barbara? Walk the 10K hard? Run the 5K?.

Here are the photos from the Jubilee Run:

We ran together for much of the second half of the race.

Kevin Carrigan and Bill Holmes

The three of us ran much of the last 2 miles together; the lady on the right (JoAnn Grane) took her bike to the park and got in more mileage afterwards.

The Siltmans (Tonya and Mike). Mike was one of those who had signed up for Western States. He still has one of the Grand Slam 100 under his belt. It seems as if he runs a 100 mier every weekend! Tonya has finished 50 milers.

The lovely and talented Bev Enslow. In her earlier years, she was an elite runner, having won the Steamboat 4 miler. Currently, she is national class at off road triathlons.

A Real Athlete and Ollie.

Elaine Lagoda; she said goodbye to me at about mile two. I ran with the male (didn’t catch his name; Elaine’s husband) for much of the rest of the race.

Mike Rucker; runner, author, race director