A lot (ok, like, 5) people have been asking what my race plans are for next year, and I’ve generally thrown out some sort of roundabout answer that really means, “I’m not sure, but it won’t be 100’s.” When I finally asked this of myself, I figured it was time to come up with some sort of loose idea of what the 2013 season will look like.
The 100% “yes I want to do these” races:
2/16: Southern Cross
4/7: Ouachita Challenge
4/26-28: Whiskey Off-Road
5/26-6/1: TSEpic
7/6: Marathon Nationals
8/11-16: Breck Epic
Then there’s the “Race of Interest” list:
3/9: Sub9 Death March
5/4: Pisgah MTB Adventure Race
5/18: I don’t know if I want to do the Pisgah 111k or Syllamo’s Revenge. Probably Syllamo
6/2: Bump & Grind (if, for some reason, I don’t do TSE)
6/22: Hilly Billy Roubaix
7/18: XC Nationals
8/4: Tahosa (in CO the weekend before the Breck Epic starts)
9/14: Pisgah Monstercross
9/something: Pisgah stage race
That’s prettymuch all I’ve got for now. I’m wide open to suggestions. Requirements include “not a 100” and “competitive women’s field.” Bonus points for equal payout to such a field as well as a high DNF rate. The high DNF rate is likely to tempt me more than anything else.
So, you’re pretty much done with the whole 100 thing eh? Hmmm, few ideas but it’s cool that you’re taking to this professional thing like a “mountain biker in dirt”. O.K., that was a crap analogy but Pig in Shit just didn’t really seem to fit. Good luck in ’13, especially since the world didn’t end today. Woohoo!
Most Horrible Thing Ever… P36. Hardly any finishers. No classes male/female, so competitive field. On my list of “things so hard I will never bother.”