{"id":558,"date":"2015-01-09T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:13:24","slug":"mud-follows-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Mud follows me"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I posted so I’ll catch up on some of the things that have happened at the end of this post…<\/p>\n

Mud seems to follow me at every race – tomorrow is the annual Bandera 100k and just like the Monster, the course will most likely be a wreck.\u00a0 Not only is it supposed to rain this afternoon and all day tomorrow, it’s expected to be below freezing so I will also experience freezing rain and ice…\u00a0\u00a0 The weather report is not pretty:<\/p>\n

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The only positive thing is that I won’t have to worry about dehydration.\u00a0 Last year, this event took me almost 14 and a half hours, this year, I expect the conditions will slow me down so I should finish right around the time the moon rises.\u00a0 I talked to Preston and decided that it’s probably best he doesn’t run this year since I will be out on the course long after he finishes and he will be miserable waiting in the cold weather for me.\u00a0 In past years, he was able to ride his bike around and hangout outside while waiting – definitely wouldn’t happen this year.<\/p>\n

I was on this course in October for the 50 mile Cactus Rose.\u00a0 I finished about 2 hours faster than the only other time I did the event, but the conditions were completely the opposite – a little too much heat and completely dry.\u00a0 I didn’t bother making a video for the race, but here is a picture of me at the 5am start.<\/p>\n

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This spring and summer we had some major work done on the house.\u00a0 All but one window and every external door was replaced.\u00a0 We also had the front walkway tiled and the 1970’s rock replaced.\u00a0 Lastly, the railing along the steps was replaced with the same type as I did the year previous.\u00a0 A couple pictures are below.<\/p>\n

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Things are moving along at work and a few of my peers and myself were asked to be in a TX Monthly ad for our alma mater, Texas State University.\u00a0 The picture below is a clip of it.\u00a0 Stay tuned, I’ll post some pics or a video from the race – not sure if I will have the will to finish, but I will start.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a while since I posted so I’ll catch up on some of the things that have happened at the end of this post… Mud seems to follow me at every race – tomorrow is the annual Bandera 100k and just like the Monster, the course will most likely be a wreck.\u00a0 Not only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}