Deception Pass 50k: Lessons in staying on my feet.

Although I wrote this long ago, life has gotten in the way of posting it. Here is a look back at my post from December 2014. 

Tackling my 6th ultra marathon can be summed up in about three ideas:

• Deception Pass is a brilliant place to run trails, and Rainshadow Running does a bang-up job of putting on a running event

• I crashed about as hard as I ever have while running, and buggered up my bad shoulder real bad like.

• This event wasn't raced as much as it was experienced and enjoyed, if you can ever enjoy suffering in an ultra.

I was super jacked to run Whidby Island on new trails. Those trails did not disappoint. Deception Pass was absolutely stunning.