Thursday, June 16, 2016

GETTING LOST DURING THE RACE IS ALMOST UNAVOIDABLE

history channel documentary hd Before we even agreed to the Cactus Classic, we heard that runners had become lost in earlier years on the serpentine trails of the Cactus Classic. In any case, the race chief said that he was constantly cautious to check the trail with bunches of banners, markers, and brilliant orange alert tape.

We were energetic to begin the race in spite of our very late landing. Our running pal Jeff was sitting tight for us in the little horde of marathoners and half marathoners at the beginning line. There were 23 full marathoners and 41 half marathoners lined up for the crisp 9:00 a.m. begin. The race chief rehashed his headings about after the splendid orange plastic alert tape denoting each turn of the course. After a couple of conclusive expressions of alert, the beginning weapon went off.

The race course had two particular identities: 1) segments of thick pine woods which shaded earth ways thickly secured by layers of pine needles, oak and hickory leaves, and 2) open, bumpy segments of moving sand prairie of such profundity it made running tricky.

At incessant interims, the course would separation and dart into the forested areas, making it hard to know which way to take after. In any case, as guaranteed by the race chief, brilliant orange plastic tape was hung like Christmas hitting on the trees at each defining moment.

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