Stacey 2.0

I've been slacking on my writing, among other things.  For the past couple of months, I have been in training mode for my first trail, first 6-hour endurance race.  At the time I registered, I had in my mind that I was going to do 50k in this race.  After all, 6 hours is only one hour longer than my marathon time, so what's 4-ish more miles in another hour?  So the training plan I was following was for a 50k, having me run 5 days a week, doing cross-training on my "off" days, and putting in some crazy miles on the weekends.  This is all taking place during the months of April, May, and June. Come race day, I had so much fun.  But my God, I hated training for it. The race was Solemates' CYA (standing for "Cool Your Ass") 6/12/24 and 100 Mile endurance race in Prescott, AZ.  The general idea was, it would be cooler to run in Prescott in July than running in Phoenix in July, and I wanted an opportunity to do a long run sometime during the summer.  I si