Running in the Colorado fall is so perfect. I got in 20 miles today after 3 days of cold, wet snow. To the Boulder Res and back. I haven’t been getting in the miles lately. Daylight Savings Time was hard on me. Weekends are my time.

I don’t know if that’s a bad training plan, getting it all in during the weekend, but that’s the time I’ve got. I’m going to try harder next week to run after work in the dark with a headlamp. I probably need some practice running in the dark. My current estimated run time for Bandera is between 14 and 17 hours, in January, so I’ll be running into the night for sure. 3 hours sounds like a big range, I can usually predict my marathon times the day before within 30 minutes. But this isn’t 26 miles, it’s 62, and I’ve never run that far before.

The really cool thing is that in addition to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law crewing me, my son-in-law just registered for the race. Unless he just treats it as a training run for his next 100 miler, and really, even if he does, he’ll be competitive to win it. I’d bet on a top 3 finish.

And Brit is gonna pace me, likely in the second half. Guidelines only allow for pacers in the second half, but my age can have pacers the entire course. This was us running the Desert Rats 50K in Fruita last spring. This is gonna be a fun family affair.