LOCATION: Forest Park, Portland, Oregon
Forest Park is a great place to do trail training. For this reason I have run a lot at Forest Park and know the park and trails very well. In 2007, I did this race and tied my 50k PR. This time with my
increased speed I was looking to breaking that PR. I was ready for it. Then on Saturday night it started pouring down rain. I knew that would keep me from a PR so I decided that I would run it and just have fun.I drove to the park in the morning, and yes it was very wet. I saw a lot of Maniac friends. It was lightly raining the whole race. This made it hard and the mud made it even worse. I just wanted to have fun and finish in a decent time. At one point about 8-9 miles into the run, I slipped on a wet and slick bridge. But I was okay and just kept going. My time was a decent time of 5:30 (given the muddy conditions).
So many of the runners were from Seattle and didn't know the course that well. The markers the organizers use were moved by some peds and many got lost. But I managed to stay on course. It was a fun and a wonderful day.
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