Grasslands Half Marathon

My brother Ronald and I are running the Grasslands Half Marathon this Saturday. Woot woot!

History: The Grasslands Trail Run was my first full marathon and it was an AMAZING experience. A month after Grasslands I ran the OKC Marathon, which was...memorable (terrible weather and the most challenging thing I've ever done).

I'm excited about the half marathon this Sat though and it will be interesting for a two reasons:

1. We have had beautiful weather this week, but on Sat it's supposed to get into the 40's and rain from 9am - 1pm. The half starts at 8:30am and I'm expecting to be out there for 3hrs (trail runs are a little harder and usually longer than they say). Grasslands may turn out to be Mudlands.
   
2. Ronald and I aren't trained for it. He has been home a week and has done very little cardio over the past 4 months and my run volume has been pretty low so far this year.

But as my Grasslands pacer Tom Crull said last year, "This is no big deal. It's just a trail run. Time doesn't matter." And that's really true. It is just a trail run and I can walk it if things get bad - it's only 13.1 miles.