Boulder Dash 5 Miler
I was back racing this past weekend, and this time, I was going to run to the bottom of a quarry. Quarry runs at test of lung capacity, strength in your quads, and sheer stubbornness in your willingness to keep pushing. I ran Boulder Dash 5 miler a couple of years ago, and I decided that I wanted to try it again. They have two races: a 5k and a 5 miler. The 5k does the perimeter of the quarry, and you guessed it; the 5 miler goes to the bottom of the quarry. The course is entirely gravel and dirt. Given Helene had just gone through about 24 hours before, there was plenty of mud. Gray mud covered the back of my legs, shorts, and my back. Somehow, I even had the gray stuff on the front of my quads. I don't know how. We were led out by a pickup truck. We quickly fell into running in its tire tracks. Anywhere else was just soft mud. Getting to the entrance to the quarry, they had us weaving around these giant piles of gravel. The decent to the bottom was rather easy. I did my best