The Minotaur 2019

Well the ride to Alberta went very well, the first race here, Meet the Minotaur 2019 was a great twist to a trail run. Vertical gain like none before. 1839m 19.5km course, it's taken me a bit of time to collect my thoughts on this one given the true nature of what started as a bit of a joke with my youngest son and a misconception of my oldest son and I. The later could well have been my own thought reconstruction of two conceptions. (I got some details of two different races confused?) So my orginal thoughts of the Minotaur were ultra distance and vertically(I would never venture to the vertical here) . That was the misconception but the joke part was me saying Tell everyone its I'm training for the Minotaur as my reason for all the recent running and health obsession.

I did at one point early on Google the race looked at the photos (I probably had not trail run yet) so yea I looked at the photos looked at the runners in the photos, looked at the mountians and went "that's all cool but not for me, not into heights no reason to go there" .

The race itself was amazing, well put together and orchestrated, After realizing the distance was much less than Ultra, the evolving elevation, and my fear of were becoming a reality.  I climbed, focused on the the path/task at hand and ran it for myself. A short enlightening break before cp3 and the real climb was to start somewhere after the safety check point I found a bit of comfort and was able to get myself and my empty water bladder back in gear.

It was gut buster climbs and alot of elevation in a course, lotsa log hopping and a super great work out, lots of rocks in the shoes and lotsa door prizes, good food and a 3rd place in the Masters  for me. A super good time that I still am not sure I really did it or dreamt it. My shins dont lie!

3rd 

We ran along that ridge up there, which means we got up there to run then got down to the finish.