{"id":5977,"date":"2019-12-13T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2019-12-13T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:49:56","slug":"yeti-trail-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=5977","title":{"rendered":"Yeti Trail Series Race Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About 6-ish weeks back, a fellow Tailwind Nutrition #Trailblazer told me about a race series called, Yeti Trail Series.\u00a0 The series is in Dixon, Illinois, just a hop, skip and a jump from where I live.\u00a0 I thought it sounded like fun AND I needed to learn to run in snow.\u00a0 What better way to learn than to do a winter trail series?<\/p>\n

After checking with my coach, I registered.<\/p>\n

This past Saturday was race #1 of this series and it was fun!!!\u00a0 My Tailwind Nutrition #Trailblazer friend and I carpooled together.\u00a0 Seeing as we live in the same town and had yet to meet IRL, it seemed like a great idea!\u00a0 It was!!!\u00a0 I’m afraid I talked her ear off.\u00a0 Poor lady!<\/p>\n

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It was a chilly morning so after picking up our bibs, it was back to the car to stay warm.\u00a0 About 10 minutes to gun time, I started milling around and chatting with the other runners.\u00a0 It was odd not knowing anybody at the race.\u00a0 I’m so used to Mississippi and meeting with my friends.\u00a0 I felt a little bit like a fish out of water.<\/p>\n

Right at noon o’clock the gun went off and so did we!<\/p>\n

The majority of the course was single track trails which I dearly love to run!\u00a0 They’re such a blast!\u00a0 At the beginning of a race, they can get congested and that’s what happened Saturday morning.\u00a0 Fortunately the race is limited to 100 runners so things thinned out quickly.<\/p>\n

Leaves littered the trail.\u00a0 They were thick and so very pretty!\u00a0 Those leaves also hid all the roots and rocks that liked to trip you.\u00a0 I had to step carefully but was successful in staying vertical the entire race…a miracle!<\/p>\n

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That first mile was a little slower than I would have liked but that was primarily due to the congestion at the beginning.\u00a0 Mile #2 was flat and I flew!<\/p>\n

Mile #2 was along a pretty lake.\u00a0 I loved it!\u00a0 ZOOM!!!<\/p>\n

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After zooming and feeling speedy, along came Mile #3.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind I knew there was a bit of a hill at the end of this race but HOLY HILL!!!<\/p>\n

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A run\/walk combo was the name of the game for that beast at Mile #3.\u00a0 After cresting the top, it was time to get back to ZOOM-ing and that’s what we did until crossing the finish.<\/p>\n

It was odd, glancing at my COROSglobal and seeing 2.50 miles and realizing the race was almost over!\u00a0 I’m so used to run 10+ hours that this race zipped by.<\/p>\n

I totally loved this race and can hardly wait to run the rest of the series.\u00a0 Here’s the remaining race schedule:<\/p>\n

10K: January 4, 2020
\n15K: February 1, 2020
\n20K: March 7, 2020<\/p>\n

Each month they add 5k distance to the race the month before.\u00a0 The March race will be perfect as a taper run for my 100M on March 16.<\/p>\n

#IRun4Aiden<\/p>\n

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About 6-ish weeks back, a fellow Tailwind Nutrition #Trailblazer told me about a race series called, Yeti Trail Series.\u00a0 The series is in Dixon, Illinois, just a hop, skip and a jump from where I live.\u00a0 I thought it sounded like fun AND I needed to learn to run in snow.\u00a0 What better way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,27,22,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977"}],"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=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}