Through 1 or 3 (dozen, per week, at least) hours of Google and Bing searches looking at trail running and ultrarunning I found the Sandia Trail Runners Meetup group and signed up. I emailed one of the members and talked a little about ultra running. She invited me to a meeting about a trail running "class" coming up soon. I attended the meeting and met several more local trail runners.
Soon after signing up for the Meetup group they posted a run I could not avoid looking into further. On November 17th they were holding a Poker Run in the Foothills. Due to a few questions regarding directions to the run and questions about the run route and where cards would be located the organizers
of the run decided to have an orientation run on 26 October. These people were very welcoming and as always running in the Foothills was great. I started toward a great hand but ended up with only a pair of queens but that took 2 minutes off my time. I was hooked again. Now to find more time to participate with them.
Some of these guys and gals also participate in a local run series called the Albuquerque Fat Ass Series a, usually, free, unsupported race series of 50k events in the vicinity of Albuquerque. The soonest event scheduled was the White Mesa 50k on November 9th. The route of this run was a 8.1 mile loop, four of which makes a bit over 50k. I knew I couldn't even think of doing a 50k, but I had to wonder how 2 laps would go, the 25k I've been wanting.
Soon after signing up for the Meetup group they posted a run I could not avoid looking into further. On November 17th they were holding a Poker Run in the Foothills. Due to a few questions regarding directions to the run and questions about the run route and where cards would be located the organizers
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| A few participants in the Poker Run |
Some of these guys and gals also participate in a local run series called the Albuquerque Fat Ass Series a, usually, free, unsupported race series of 50k events in the vicinity of Albuquerque. The soonest event scheduled was the White Mesa 50k on November 9th. The route of this run was a 8.1 mile loop, four of which makes a bit over 50k. I knew I couldn't even think of doing a 50k, but I had to wonder how 2 laps would go, the 25k I've been wanting.
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