A fat ass race is one that is free, offers nothing but a marked course
and reserves the right emasculate or the female equivalent, to anyone
that whines even once. Most often they are in off season.
I did a 50k yesterday for a training run. 'Twas a 5k loop that you did
from one to ten times but only scored if you did them all. The 5k loop
is a two edged sword, you see you car almost too frequently but then
again to take another 3.1 mile loop lures you back out. Anyway I had a
blast not so much with the race but taking to foxy babes past the
Marathon distance for the first time in there lives. When they got to 7
laps I just egged them on with hell, one more dinky 3 miles and off they
went. One of the ladies was slowing big time for the last lap and we
simply slowed to her pace and all finished hand-in-hand. The big smiles
on their face were priceless.
I expect some devilish email over the next day or so as delayed onset
rears it head. The longest run we had was 19 miles although it had 3,500
accumulated elevation. The course had two ups going and coming and we
did not walk a step. We ran about 4:53 and in position 4-6 but the time
was not important - finishing the distance will build their confidence.
We are going in a large group to do a trail 50k in March. Rock on!
-DougF