Yeti Nightmare 10 miler

Last night was my 3rd time running the Yeti Nightmare race with Melissa and Sandy. This year we ran the 10 miler instead of the 5 miler. It was one of those days where the weather forecast just seemed to keep changing for the worse. I thought is was going to be in the 50s for the race (start 8:30 pm) with a low chance of rain towards the end of the race. But it started to drizzle by the time the race started and it was raining hard by mile 6. And it was about 39 F when we finished!

It was a really tough race for me. The course included all kinds of terrain. We ran through woods, mud, over bridges, through creeks, over trees, and through some freshly cut down pines along a power line route. I was wearing shorts with a thin long sleeve under armor shirt and a technical T-shirt on top of that. I started cold, warmed up a bit, and then got cold again. That was the first time I had run 10 miles in a long time (maybe a year?) but I had run the occasional 7 or 8 mile route the last few months on the road. By mile 8 I was was cold, wet, and exhausted but I kept on pushing to get back to the warm hut for my beer and food. Thank goodness we all brought some dry clothes to change into. I threw down a protein bar, 2 cookies, a banana and a beer. That is recovery nutrition :)
Time = 1:53:27
This is always a fun race and the crazy conditions just made the race more memorable. Legendary!

The three of us before the race

Instructions at the start