LBL 50 Mile - 2022
Race: Land Between the Lakes 50M Date: 3.12.2022 Time: 7:56:47 Place: 3rd place male Pre-Race Conditions: Night before the race and I’m writing this from bed. I set a reminder in my phone to do this for 5am instead of 5pm. There have been some changes throughout the day. The weather prediction of some snow and a NEAR 0 temp at the start made the RD push the race start back 2 hours from a 6:30 start to 8:30. With the time change that’s really like 9:30 for us. I still think a 6:30 start with the snow, wet and wind would be beautiful. Barkley was a few days ago and as John Kelly said “Barkley weather isn't extreme - it's volatile”. This is a cake walk of weather compared to that. We spend so much time training for these kinds of conditions that it’s a little upsetting when they make changes to avoid racing in them. By the start I’m thinking the trail may be a little wet but not too bad. We got a little accumulation of snow on the car when we got done with dinner. ...