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I think the goal is to escape the giant crawfish chasing you

One of my main goals this calendar year (notice how I avoided the term “resolution”; sneaky eh?) is to run my first 5K. I’ve ran here and there, but it’s always been on my own terms and often alone — this whole race thing is new to me. I have no intention to win it, but just to complete it in one piece is my goal.

So anywho, the Muddy Trails 5K is a nice little race in the Creekside Park section of The Woodlands. It goes down April 5th. I haven’t scoped it out yet, but I believe it takes place on some of the nature paths. How this translates to accommodate a couple hundred or thousand people remains to be seen, but at least it should be fairly cool (by Houston standards) in early April, and if it really takes place on the nature trail, there should be plenty of shade.

If anyone else is interested in running it let me know. Registration hasn’t opened yet, but it’s $20 if you register by March 20th.

I know how Usain Bolt and the dude who ran the marathon in 2:06 perfected their technique. I’m convinced they must have spent months running in Houston’s 90% humidity. I recently switched from indoor gym running with air conditioning, to outdoor trail running with 80-90 degree weather and 80-90% humidity. If you can learn to run well in this weather, you can run in anything. Seriously- indoors I can run three miles on a slight incline keeping my heart rate at 85% of my max and never feeling overwhelmingly winded. Outdoors, I was lucky to run 200 yards without having to stop to a slow walk. I don’t think my heart rate ever fell below 180 the entire time. Fun.

Anybody want to prescribe me some DVT prophylaxis and perhaps some blood doping?