It all started with that simple joke.  Paige and I had been contemplating running Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile together for a while and had discussed it with a few CHUGs to test their interest.  A few showed interest and Brian said that if we went, to let him know because he was interested.  Paige then posted the above knock knock joke on Brian’s Facebook page.  You have to be careful with what you say to Brian because he is an action oriented guy.  He took this to mean we had signed up and two minutes later, sent us his confirmation.  Paige and I sat there in disbelief.  We hadn’t done any long runs yet and with the temperatures in the single digits for the past couple of weeks, we weren’t all that excited about doing one now.  Add to that, Rocky was only a couple months away.  We wanted to run a 100 miler together and wanted that race to be early enough in the year that we could properly recover before the spring season.  We have heard great things about this race.  And, we love hanging out with Brelly and the other CHUGs who are also racing.  We had a lot of incentive to do Rocky.  But, there was still the lingering fact that we were way behind on our training and didn’t really feel like ramping it up.

Enter Windburn Six in the Stix.  We decided that we would use this race as our test of our fitness - if we got through it feeling good, we were in.  Well, we finished feeling great and that night we signed up.  Texas, here we come!