Rogue Trail Series: The Maze
Monday Apr 24, 2006
I ran the first event of the 2006 Rogue Trail Series, The Maze 10K at Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park in Austin, TX, on Sunday 2006-04-23. This was my first trail race, and I thought it was pretty fun. According to this review there were about 165 runners who ran the 30K and over 100 of us who ran the 10K. While I got a little muddy, it wasn't all that bad. There was one creek crossing where you just had to take the plunge and run through the water. Fortunately, it was in the second half of the 10K loop, so I didn't have to run with wet feet for too long. The 30K was three times around the 10K loop, so I guess they had wet feet for significant amounts of time.
One interesting comment from the review was this:Ferguson averaged about a 9:00 minute-per-mile pace over the rugged terrain of the 30K course. If that sounds easy, it’s not. He estimates it’s the equivalent of running a 6:45 pace for a road 30K.So my 10:47 pace sounds slow, but according to my extrapolation of the author's formula, it was equivalent to 8:05 per mile pack for a road race. That's pretty fast for me. I was certainly tired out. With all the twists and turns and ups and downs, you do get much more worn out than a road race. I'm contemplating running the next in the series, The Loop on 05-21. Again, the 10K option, but it sounds quite different, much less mud, lots more big rocks.
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But then, you know that! ;^)
I used to just do 'cross country', i.e. on tracks, and it was suggested that 'trail' type running was an excellent training variation for that. What the Scandinavians call 'fartlek', whichs sound more amusing that it is (I believe it means 'play running').
Keep up the good work... but be wary of injury. It's easy to turn an ankle trail running, and that can have long-term consequences.
Posted by Robin Wilton on April 24, 2006 at 02:25 PM CDT #