Goodwater Trail Marathon race report 2023
Hey, my first official new race report on my new blog. Woo. Meanwhile I'm backdating the other stuff I think I might care about (race and trip reports, mostly) to when they actually happened. Hopefully. Work in progress. Originally this trail marathon seemed like a good idea because we were signed up to do Swimrun Coastal Dunes in March, and I wanted motivation to keep my running distance up. And a fun off-season goal. AND despite living in Austin my whole life, and hearing about the Lake Georgetown loop since I've been trail running, I've never made it out there. As a bonus, the marathon is one loop, a full circumnavigation of the lake. How fun is that? Especially after the 4 summer-hot loops at the Texas Trail Festival Marathon last year. As a second bonus, Matt decided to go out with me, and do the 16 miler! We'd both be undertrained for the distances we registered for, so we figured we could spend the next days hobbling together, which is always more fun. I wasn...