{"id":5553,"date":"2018-10-31T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:03:55","slug":"ways-bluff-25k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=5553","title":{"rendered":"Way’s Bluff 25k"},"content":{"rendered":"

25k is an odd distance for me to race.\u00a0 \u00a0I don’t run it very often and I usually end up having to Google the distance because I can never remember how many miles it is.\u00a0 How funny is that!?!<\/p>\n

This past Saturday I raced the 25k distance at a race called Way’s Bluff in Canton, Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Way’s Bluff is located at the Gray Center in Canton, and is put on by MUTS (Mississippi Ultra and Trail Society) in partnership with the staff at the Gray Center.<\/p>\n

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MUTS is a relatively new organization and I have to say they’re doing an amazing job raising awareness of running trails and ultra running in the great state of Mississippi.\u00a0 Awesome people are heading this up and I cannot say enough great things about these folk and the organization as a whole.\u00a0 If you’re looking for a trail\/ultra race in Mississippi and it’s put on by MUTS, you simply cannot go wrong.<\/p>\n

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This was my first time running in Canton.\u00a0 I had been there earlier this year doing a Tailwind Nutrition demo while people did a preview run of the trails for this race.\u00a0 They were having a great time so I decided if this race fit into my schedule, I’d give it a shot!<\/p>\n

I had heard rumors that there was a little elevation on these trails but after chatting with a few people was told there was only about 250′ elevation.\u00a0 Easy peasy!<\/p>\n

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The weekend before the race, MFH (My Favorite Husband) and a few Twitter friends, had met for a some miles on the Noxubee Trail System.\u00a0 We ran 8 miles and had about 500′ elevation.<\/p>\n

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My brain was doing some mental calculations and I had come to the conclusion that the run at Way’s Bluff would be a cake walk.\u00a0 Word to the wise, don’t ever(!) rely on my #runnersmath.\u00a0 It is almost always wrong!<\/p>\n

The trails were beautiful!\u00a0 There were a few hills that I most definitely was not expecting but what are you going to do?\u00a0 You run them!\u00a0 16 miles later and almost 900′ elevation, I crossed the finish line with a sweet PR!\u00a0 I was sooooo excited about how that run went!<\/p>\n

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Here’s just a few pics of those trails because it really is a beautiful place!<\/p>\n

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As always, it was a blast to see so many of my Mississippi running friends and of course to carry on our #tradition of a Fireball shot to celebrate the successful completion of another great day on the trails!<\/p>\n

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Now, it’s time to buckle down for my last 5 weeks of training before Brazos Bend 50M on December 8.<\/p>\n

Happy Running, everyone!!!<\/p>\n

#IRun4Aiden<\/p>\n

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25k is an odd distance for me to race.\u00a0 \u00a0I don’t run it very often and I usually end up having to Google the distance because I can never remember how many miles it is.\u00a0 How funny is that!?! This past Saturday I raced the 25k distance at a race called Way’s Bluff in Canton, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,22,6,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}