Monday, January 21, 2013

2013 Bandera Trail Runs - Club Report

The Dudes...

Cedar Creek Cross Country Club rocked out the Bandera Trail Runs on January 12 at Hill Country State Natural Area. For XC runners that are used to running a 5k down the road and coming home on a school bus, driving 6 hours away to camp in a tent and run a 25k up and down multiple Texas "Mountains" can aptly be described as "Long...but Amazing!" (H.Rose)  Evan Arambula, the swiftest youngster in the group, described conditions that made an already challenging course even more Les Miserables.  Brandon summed up the experience as a race that "truly tests your physical, as well as mental, toughness"

Joe Pruisatis, Tejas Trails Race Director, never seeks to falsely elevate Bandera to some "Toughest Around" status, but such an effort would be superfluous; anyone that has raced there, and finished their race, knows what they have accomplished, and this time around, the (903) was well repped.

Check out team member results below. 

25K (368 Entrants)
Evan Arambula - 2:16 - 6th
Hunter Rose - 3:19 - 95th
Brandon Hall - 3:20 - 99th
Hunter Norris - 3:57 - 185th

50K (258 Entrants)
Josh Sypert - 6:30 - 78th
Gene Myers - 13:14 - 244th

100k USATF Trail Championship (256 Entrants)
Boog Ferrell - 13:42 - 48th (11th in Open Male Div.)

For Boog's personal race report, click here.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Bandera 2013: Pre-Trip Inspection

Saturday Morning, January 12, at 7:30am - 7 brave (not so redneck but very 903) souls will toe the line at Hill Country State Natural Area outside of Bandera, Texas to take part in the annual running of Tejas Trail's Bandera Trail Runs.



The following entrants are confirmed (and you are welcome to join us)...
Boog - 100k
Gene & Syp - 50k
Hunter, Hunter, Brandon & Ev - 25k

Some ver-ver serious hills in this go round & Cedar Creek Cross Country Club will be rep-re-sent-ing in all our glorious exhaustion.

It shall be fun. There will be a report.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Chosen Fast: The Tyler Rose: Vol. 1

The Chosen Fast: The Tyler Rose: Vol. 1: "It's been a long time since I've seen the lake this full."  Coming out of possibly one of the worst droughts in Texas' history makes you ...

Monday, March 12, 2012

The Chosen Fast: 2012 Nueces Trail Race Report

The Chosen Fast: 2012 Nueces Trail Race Report: "She [Nature] is herself. Offer her neither worship nor contempt. Meet her and know her. If we are immortal, and if she is doomed (as the s...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Chosen Fast: One Tough Mudder...Cross Timbers 2012

The Chosen Fast: One Tough Mudder...Cross Timbers 2012: Running down one side of a dark, steep cove, looking across and seeing the train of headlights pursuing through the forest, still with ant...

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Cross Timbers Preview

CCCCC will be well represented this Saturday at Cross Timber Trail Runs at Lake Texoma, Tx.  There will be a trio of youthful young thinclads heading down for the Half Marathon, and I'll be taking up the fun of the 50 mile. Full race report will follow...and probably some photographic proof that only goofballs and weirdos run on trails for fun.
Cross Timbers Aerial Photo