LOCATION: Cedar River Trail near Maple Valley, Washington
Sunday's 50k was a little different than most. There is an "international" 50k called Yours Truly, the idea is that hundreds of runners all over the world would run a 50k and compile a list of runners online. Since that time, these types of races can only count with the Maniacs if a group of 5+ runners run the same course. Brian Pendleton setup a course and had about a dozen runners that showed up.
Tim and I drive to the Cedar River Trail near Maple Valley. We met up with some of the other Maniacs and headed out at 7:45am.
The course is a basic out-and-back, but you have to run it twice. I was feeling a bit stiff, but like all doubles it's about getting out there. Our goal was to have fun. I brought my camera and so did Tim, so we wanted to take a lot of pictures, and just enjoy ourselves. Each stretch of the out-and-back is 7.78 miles. It was cold about 32° at the start, the course was compact gravel, and was frozen. But the clouds were thin.
As we started out, we had a lot of fun taking pictures, Tim made it a habit of taking pictures of the others runners and we crossed them. We arrived at the turnaround in 1:27:37. On the return we caught up with Monte Pascual. We decided to stick with him for a while. We stuck with him until the halfway point. In the return leg we ran a 1:36:44.
When we got back to the start area, we met up with Fred Johnson. He was considering on going home. But when we told him that we were going back out, he decided to join us. We ran that stretch in 1:33:29. When we got to the turnaround, we waited up Jess Mullen. That would add a little extra time to our time.
On the final return, we pushed much harder. I was not ready for a hard return. But we were going strong. The weather which was very nice was getting even better. The temperature was in the upper 30's and the sun had come out. Only a few times in the entire run did we have a little snow. We finished very strong and ended up running a sub-6 hour race. Our final return was 1:17:39, which gave us a negative split. First half of 3:04:21 a second half of 2:51:08, that means we ran a total of 5:55:29.
We stuck around a little longer; we took off about 3pm and drove back to Portland.
Sunday's 50k was a little different than most. There is an "international" 50k called Yours Truly, the idea is that hundreds of runners all over the world would run a 50k and compile a list of runners online. Since that time, these types of races can only count with the Maniacs if a group of 5+ runners run the same course. Brian Pendleton setup a course and had about a dozen runners that showed up.
Tim and I drive to the Cedar River Trail near Maple Valley. We met up with some of the other Maniacs and headed out at 7:45am.
The course is a basic out-and-back, but you have to run it twice. I was feeling a bit stiff, but like all doubles it's about getting out there. Our goal was to have fun. I brought my camera and so did Tim, so we wanted to take a lot of pictures, and just enjoy ourselves. Each stretch of the out-and-back is 7.78 miles. It was cold about 32° at the start, the course was compact gravel, and was frozen. But the clouds were thin.
As we started out, we had a lot of fun taking pictures, Tim made it a habit of taking pictures of the others runners and we crossed them. We arrived at the turnaround in 1:27:37. On the return we caught up with Monte Pascual. We decided to stick with him for a while. We stuck with him until the halfway point. In the return leg we ran a 1:36:44.
When we got back to the start area, we met up with Fred Johnson. He was considering on going home. But when we told him that we were going back out, he decided to join us. We ran that stretch in 1:33:29. When we got to the turnaround, we waited up Jess Mullen. That would add a little extra time to our time.
On the final return, we pushed much harder. I was not ready for a hard return. But we were going strong. The weather which was very nice was getting even better. The temperature was in the upper 30's and the sun had come out. Only a few times in the entire run did we have a little snow. We finished very strong and ended up running a sub-6 hour race. Our final return was 1:17:39, which gave us a negative split. First half of 3:04:21 a second half of 2:51:08, that means we ran a total of 5:55:29.
We stuck around a little longer; we took off about 3pm and drove back to Portland.
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