I train a million times better when I have a goal or better yet an event that I am training for. It is too easy to blow off workouts and find reasons not too workout if I don't have some "death defying" event coming up. So with that in mind, I am announcing here and now ( and it's actually a bit scary to even type this) that I am returning to the Northface Endurance Challenge 50k run in San Francisco on December 4th. I attempted this race a couple fo years ago but had to pull out at mile 19 because of a knee problem ( this would later be the same knee that I ruptured my ACL- so we now think it was fairly well blown in that race). So, I've got some unfinished business with this run. And for better or worse, I now know what is ahead of me on this run, and it is brutal. My Garmin told me I had already climbed 7,000'+ feet when I pulled out at mile 19 if that gives you any indication of how tough this will be. Below is a video taken on the course that shows just how beautiful the course is.
I am very excited to go back and finish what I started and even more so I am excited to have an event on the calendar again. I will keep you updated on how the training is going and I'll be using Training Peaks Software to log all the details.
For anyone who is considering it, there are a number of other distances that day as well. There's a 50 mile, 50K (32 miles), Marathon, Marathon Relay, Half Marathon, 10k and 5k, and a Kid's Run. Join us if you'd like. We can train together virtually or physically as suffering is always funner in groups.
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