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Wild Trails, Scenic City Trail Marathon recap.

Scenic City Trail Marathon, 26.2 miles through Raccoon Mountain in Chattanooga. This event is labeled one of the biggest trail marathons in the south east (500+ participants) and is also a flatter/faster event that Wild Trails puts together. Although still a difficult course specially to anyone who is use to road running. The course is about 2400+ft of gain through out, rocky, rooty, muddy, constant up and down rolling hills. The course consisted of 2 loops (5 aid stations for the marathoners and 2 for the half marathoners). PRE-THOUGHTS Entering this event I wasn't sure what to expect. I looked into previous course times and the records were set by male: 2:42 and female 3:13. The lady who held the CR is a good runner, who has knocked a lot a sub 3 hour road marathons, so going into this event I knew I wouldn't be running anywhere close to sub 3 on this course. As for my training, I have been running the strong, focusing more on speedwork and keeping lower mileage to concentrat