What a great event with a great bunch of people. What else can I say. I can't quite call this my first trail race since it was totally laid back and casual (and that's a good thing) so how about first trail event. I had an opportunity to meet and join the Oklahoma Trail Running Association - what a great bunch. RD Katherine Cranwell had petitions to make Oklahoma a cool city (I'm sure there is a joke there some where but seriously this is a good thing). Keith had the beer and Dave's son grilled hot dogs. And at the end there was a poker game (each lap earned you three cards). I had the chance to run with a lot of great folks including the OTRA (http://www.oktrailrunning.com) who hosted the event, the Oklahoma City running club (http://okcrunning.org), the Oklahoma City Triathlon Club (http://www.triokc.org) and the Tulsa Area Trail Ultra Runners - AKA Taturs (http://www.taturs.org) and make lots of new friends.
Overall an extremely fun event that whet my appetite for more trail running. I even won something at the poker game - though I still think Brett should have took it all home with his 7 aces (thats what happend when you get 21 cards).
Oh yeah - I also had my longest run ever at 16 miles - thanks to my wife and son for cheering on Team Daddy, Brian from the Taturs for talking me through the half way point with stories of the Barkley that made this event seem tame and Brett (OTRA, Tri-OKC, etc..) for keeping me going that last lap.
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