If you stay in Beaumont, don’t choose Econolodge.  Closed.  First hand info.

If you run in Beaumont, signup with Mainly Marathons.  The Minnesota brothers who run these events provide a sweet self-crew area & post a ‘no runner left behind’ motto.

Fast runners, slow runners, old, young.  Closest thing you’ll find to a running cult.

Get to the Start, get to the Finish.  Drive, hotel, shower, repeat — that’s a Mainly Series.

Run, walk, conserve, endure.  14 laps in Beaumont, a whopping 26 in Louisiana.   Blowing out a fast 50K with the locals, won’t serve me 11 days later.  Steady, consistent. TIME ON FEET.  100-mile goal race in September — Mainly is part of the solution. Breaking down the impossible 100 into smaller mental chunks.  HUGE!

Day One.  Ran 16 miles, walked 16 miles.  Two-hour drive to Jennings, Louisiana.  Crayfish enchiladas.  Sleeps — and it happens again.

Day Two.  Re-wake the legs, eat/drink, consistent steady intake of calories.  Lap, lap, lap, lap.  32 miles more, a 2nd 50K finish — and the Gator Chateau.  Sure, it was small — but holding a live gator isn’t something I’m gonna experience in the Rockies 🙂

One day at a time.

Break it down.  One ‘run’ day is 7 hours.  Those 7 hours are 14 laps.  2 walk, 6 run, 4 walk, 2 run.  Each lap you gather a rubber band, electrolyte refuel & move forward.  And that lap, an out-n-back.  To the red cone & return.

Tick, tick, tick.  Red cone, return.  Red cone, return.  Like a running metronome.

Beaumont TX & Jennings LA