Eugene Oregon 20k Ridgeline Ramble trailrun
so, last weekend I went to visit my brother in Eugene Oregon, just hanging out, doing some work on crossfit technique. Then his friend mentions a 20k trail run. And we look into it, and what do you know, it’s the next day! Lets do it. So, we go to sign up, and all entries are full, they’ve been full for a long time! But somehow, thanks to a pushy girl in front of us, we get entered by using people’s no-show entries!
So, the start of the race, I’m talking to this guy, like at the front of the starting line, and we start, and I’m in front of all these fast runners, and nowhere to let them pass, so, yeah, kinda a mental takedown, (them all passing me the first few miles where the trail widens).
But, I get into this trailrun, which I haven’t been training for at all, and come to find out, the elevation gains are pretty hefty for this run, my watch shows 3 hill climbs of 1000 feet upon completion! With elevation loss in between which was tearing up my legs, thank goodness for soft trail running dirt!
I finished good, shouldn’t have startout out so fast, but finished 6th out of 12 in my age group, and 30th out of estimated 140, with a pace of 8:17. So overall a good run.
Making me wonder about my Machenzie river trail 50k run in September, but need to focus on Triathlon first.
Moses Lake olympic distance next weekend! Lake Stevens 70.3 coming a few weeks after that one!
May 4, 2009 at 11:24 am
Hey! I was doing the registration/packet pickup that day so I was the one that let you run this race!