mugging

[ilanarama]

Sunday was the last race of the "Town Series" which I entered for the first time this year - three trail races, one on each of the major in-town trail systems. They are all individual races but if you enter them all as a series it's quite cheap (as a member of the local running club, only $36 for all three) and you get a t-shirt in addition to the various minor goodies for each race. The final race, though, the Animas Mountain Mug Run, has the best goodies of all: an after-race party with free Mexican food (and beer!) and this lovely ceramic coffee mug:



(The handle's in the back where you can't see it.) You have to earn it on the course, though, which is the same route where I took these pictures when I ran it for practice last month: basically, 1500 feet up in 3 miles, a little rolling trail at the top, and then the same back down. The official distance is 6.6 but I suspect it might be a little shorter than that. Anyway, it was a tough run, I came in at the bottom of the top third of women, 1:11:45, just behind the woman who has been just beating me at trail races all summer. Incidentally, she won the series on points, so I think that means I came in second!

Comments

[libitina]

NICE!

[ilanarama]

Thank you!

[blnchflr]

That's a beautiful mug!!

[redroanchronicles]

That's freaking awesome. I love that mug. I WANT that mug. I feel driven to GET THAT MUG. Except that I'm pretty sure I could probably get cheaper mugs without going to Colorado. :D Still, a much better post-race souvenir than all the cheap white t-shirts these events tend to give out. (White? Really? They do realize that I *run* in these things, right?)

[ilanarama]

Alas, Parks and Rec (who put on this race series) announced that they don't have enough money to put them on this year. Another sponsor was found for the first race of the series (we got a water bottle and a chocolate bar at that one) but I dunno if anyone will put this one on. I hope so - it's the oldest local race, I think.

Most of the races I have done in the last few years (of those that do shirts; most of the shorter ones don't) have moved to tech shirts, which is just fabulous. I actually can run in them now! And I haven't had to actually buy a shirt in years.

(It is an AWESOME mug!)