Ever since Sarah became aware of the Big Sur Marathon it’s been on her bucket list.  She’s all about training for a race if it involves a cool destination.  And Carmel, California is a pretty cool destination.  Each year they shut down Highway 1 along the coast between Big Sur and Carmel for a half day for the running of this race.  And if all goes as planned she and I both will be standing on the starting line ready to crush it on April 30th.

Once again we’re joining up with the Children’s Tumor Foundation.  We’ll be doing fundraising as we train that will go towards finding a cure for Neurofibromatosis.  This will be the third time we’ve trained and raced with CTF and we could not be more excited.

Training for this one will be a little different.  With over 2,000 ft of elevation gain this is not the average Texas marathon.  To date I’ve completed 4 marathons with a combined elevation gain of probably 200 ft.

So some hill training is definitely on the docket for the next few months.  It looks like if we can survive the two mile climb leading up to mile 12 (and the immediate downhill following)  we should be ok.

Stay tuned over the next few months as we train and fund raise.

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