Trail Run/Walk

I'm doing this race in June where you both run and bike. For 6 miles, you switch off with a partner. One is running and one is biking and then after a mile, you swap. It's called Muddy Buddy since at the end, you have crawl through some kind of giant mud pit. It's basically just an excuse to have fun.

Since I haven't done any trail runs or mountain biking, I thought I should start and joined a group of people doing a 6 mile trail run near my house. It started out fine, but then immediately got incredibly steep. So steep, we had to just walk up it. But then it leveled out and was fine for a while. The fast folks stopped every so often to check the map, so us slow people were able to catch up regularly which was nice.

But apparently, we took one (or two) wrong turns and ended up in some other area with almost no idea how to get unlost. Lucikly we ran into a couple people who pointed us in the right direction and we made it back to our cars only going .34 miles over what we should have gone. We were all tired and thirsty and did a lot of walking.

Basically, I need to do this a lot more in the next 6 weeks. Yuck.