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Wallow in the Mud!

Its 2010 and I needed a New Years Resolution! Not really, but I am a person that likes to check things off, so I put a new to-do on the list. The HARRA Spring Race Series looked a like good one! A couple of the races I have run before, the others are all new courses for me.


I kicked off the season with the Buffalo Wallow 6k XC race. The temp was in the low 40's and the sun was out to warm the runners bodies. Lets face it, it was cold, and it rained all week so the course was muddy! The neat thing about this race is that it is very spectator friendly. It is a 3-2km loop course. So friends and family can set up right in the middle of the course and see the runners 6 times through out the race. I took it easy the first lap and got into a nice group of a couple others and settled in behind them. On the third loop I felt strong enough to push for a little while, so I picked the pace up a little bit, just enough to break from the group and closed the gap on a couple other runners. I finished with a time of 24:15, my goal was to be under 25 mins. The course has 2 tough hills and is along the bayou between Waugh and Taft.


Congrats to all the other runners, especially all those ALRC members!
Up next is the Bayou City Classic 10k. See you there?
Some Flickr Photos courtesy of Hardeep

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