Finished my 50 mile trail run in Houston yesterday. It started out nice, then started to rain a bit, then rained really hard for an hour or more, then more rain off and on for several hours, then a couple hours of clouds and then the sun broke through and started baking things for the last 4 hours or so. If that sounds like a lot of hours it was! I finished in 9 hours and 31 minutes. That ended up 18th place out of 94 finishers. There were almost 150 registered, not sure how many of those didn't show up to start and how many of those dropped out during the race.
It was harder than I expected, but not as hard as I expected at the same time. I'm feeling a lot better than I expected, pretty sore, but no blisters, no toenails that feel like they are going to fall off or anything like that. Especially considering that my feet were wet for about 45 of the 50 miles. A bit of chaffing and a little sunburned, but not bad considering the crazy conditions. I actually got out and ran a couple mile recovery jog just a few minutes ago and it felt pretty good.
I took a few pictures and saw plenty of alligators and even got a good picture of one right off the trail. Lots of mud and then lots of sun there at the end. I'm going to write up a race report at some point. I didn't finish the race thinking I'm never doing that again or anything like that, but I didn't finish it thinking I needed to sign up for another one tomorrow either.
Maybe a nice mountain 50K this summer...