Calico Ghost Town 50k (32 mi)

So this will be the week of 20th of January through the 26th of January that we will be reviewing. Major accomplishments this week have definetly been the Calico trail run that I completed on Sunday, crazy ,crazy race. The race first of all was all the way out by barstowe in the desert ghost town of Calico. Race time was at strictly 7:00 so it was one of those 5:30 morning’s for me and my lovely family that accompanied me. So anyway’s ya, the race was called a “trail run” entering the race I thought nothing of it. I had done cross country for three years and those were all trail runs..So whats the big deal about another trail run? The fact thats its 32 miles long with hills that steeper than 45 degrees on mile 30 was the big deal…It was great though, a great experience I kept it a generally easy pace, walking all the hills like you would in an Ultra-marathon, taking mile by mile as it came by. They had several rest points but most of which were way too windy to stop and actually rest on so that sucked. When all was said and done with the race I sprinted through town, on the downhill finish and came in at a time of 5 hours and 17 minutes, I was somewhat dissapointed with the time (having aimed for under 5 hours) but I had completly forgotten that it was a trail run when I set that goal. So I did come in second place though for my age group and have a cool little plaque with some weird crystal on it know, its nice! Everything else that week was really just recovery from that run, and on Friday I received a huge donation from a women who works in the district office and was very pleased. Well I hope everything is well with all of you and if you havent already please make a donation today!

-Nick

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