Scott loves trails

From "Prepared to Fail" to Reassuring Finish:  TNF Bear Mountain 50 Mile Race Report, May 4, 2013     The previous few months had been off-kilter with training and racing and just general mental and physical "hygiene."  I really hadn't had a race effort that I could be reasonably proud of since last June's Bighorn and then the stress fracture layoff last summer.  The training for Bighorn had been choppy in terms of both volume and quality as compared to the last two years.  Fortunately,  I may have stemmed the bleeding a bit with early May's effort at Bear Mountain (then subsequently the pacing at Massanutten two weeks later and last training before the taper).  Nothin' like a little home cookin', I guess!   Overview :  "Steady, slow, and unspectacular" and "surprisingly even energy levels" probably sum up the effort on a glorious spring day on amazingly dry trails for this time of year.  The hard intermediate cut