Skyline to the Sea trail marathon
Running this year has been a bit of an adventure for me. I'd planned last winter to the Austin Marathon in February, but I had to put that aside when several bouts of sickness following a RedSpokes bike tour to Southeast Asia set me too far back in my preparation. Instead of the marathon, I did the Woodside Half in Huddart Park, an Envirosports trail race, my second trail race that season. I loved it. So this fall/winter, when I started running again, my focus returned to trail runs. A friend told me about how she'd planned on Skyline to the Sea , but couldn't go. Maybe I'd like to try it, she suggested. Skyline to the Sea is a rare thing in trail runs: a point-to-point race. Point A to point B. It doesn't get any more fundamental than that. I had to try it. There's two routes: the more popular "50 km" course includes an added loop up and down a hillside. The simpler route is claimed to be a marathon: slightly longer than the 26 miles + 385...