Team Thing 2 at San Jacinto Monument
I completed my 3rd Texas Independence Relay race this past weekend. My team of 12 combined with another 12 member team organized together opened up the race this year with a 6:00 AM start time in Gonzales, TX. 6:00 AM doesn't sound so bad; actually it was a little bit later start than my 2 Disney races that had 5 something AM starts. Only problem was the start line was some 2 1/2 hours away from where I live. I thought I had early mornings when I ran the Goofy Challenge as I was up at 3 AM each morning. I was up at 1 AM Saturday morning to get to a meeting area around 1:45 AM to drive on over to Gonzales.
TIR is definetely an endurance event. The running part of it is fun but the waiting to run time spent with fellow teammates is equally as fun. I was on my 3rd team in 3 years running. I didn't know any of my vanmates prior to running this year so it was great fun getting to know everyone over the 35 hour period that we ran together.
I'm not sure what next year holds for me in TIR. I ran 5 legs in 2008 for the inaugural TIR, 4 legs last year and 3 legs this year. With 40 legs and a maximum of 12 member per team, I can't run fewer than 3 legs. I ran fewer legs this year but had to take a day off work this year to recover; guess my age is starting to show! I slept a good part of the day yesterday and was probably still down on sleep time for the 3 day period Saturday-Monday.
The best news out of the weekend is that my TFL, while definetely not 100%, didn't get too tight on me after my first leg. I was able to complete my 2nd and 3rd legs around a 9:30 pace. Now I just need to rest more and I think I'll be fine to run my back to back 1/2's the 20th and 21st. I may just stick to the Beth Whitehead method of skipping all training runs and running events only.
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