The Tahqua Trail Run was a race I had had my eye on for a number of years. For most of those years it was just a 25k run. I had already done a couple of Great lakes into events in the upper peninsula of Michigan and each of them was a very fine race and will run. The course for the Tahqua certainly looked interesting covering a number of beautiful miles in the North country trail. The holdup for me was the fact that it was only a 25k and it was usually at a very busy time of year in early August for me. Nothing against a 25k but it was a long distance to travel just for a shorter race like that. I needed a good excuse to fit it into the family summer schedule. 
This year that excuse worked out perfectly. I was looking for a good race to run with my son Seth and we were hoping to do another Marathon type distance event. I happen to notice that this year they are adding the 50K distance. The timing also worked perfectly with our summer travels and it all lined up for us to attend. It also worked perfectly into my training build for my first 100K attempt on September 11th down at Pinckney in the lower peninsula. This race would be just over 4 weeks out and good timing. So we were all ready to go and hoping for a good summer of training to be ready for it.
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