Texas Series
2010 Texas Series Schedule
04/17/10 - Pure Austin Fitness XTERRA Muleshoe Trail Run - 11/22km - Spicewood, TX
05/22/10 - XTERRA Waco Trail Run - 5/10/21km - Waco, TX
08/21/10 - Pure Austin Fitness XTERRA Austin Trail Run - 5/18km - Austin, TX
2011 Texas Series
10/30/10 - Pure Austin Fitness XTERRA Bluff Creek Trail Run - 5/10/21km - Warda, TX - Race #1 of the 2011 Series
For more information about the XTERRA Texas Trail Run Series (www.racerevolutions.com), email info@racerevolutions.com or call 512-557-8092.
The combination of challenging trails, hot temperatures and cool post-race parties created a successful debut for the XTERRA Texas Trail Run Series in 2010.
The Texas Series featured just three events, but each one offered unique opportunities for both advanced and novice runners. Each of the three Texas events featured a short course and a long course.
“I think it’s important to have different trails because you have different levels of runners,” Texas Series director Mike Carter said. “As much as possible, we like to have three trails: a 5k for beginners or even walkers, and then a 10k because that’s like the next step, and then a 21k for our growing community of distance trail runners.”
Claudia Spooner of Cedar Park was one of the few runners who managed to enter all three of the long courses on the 2010 Texas schedule.
“For one, I love trail running and I really wanted to help promote this series,” she said. “But what I really like is that it’s a nice community of people, runners and triathletes, at the XTERRA races. I bring my kids to the races and let them run around, and everybody there knows them now.”
It probably helps that Spooner was one of the fastest runners – male or female – in the 2010 Texas Series. She was the first female finisher at all three of the Texas Series races. Most impressive, she finished second overall (beating all but one of the male runners) at the XTERRA Waco Half-Marathon Trail Run.
“Waco was probably the toughest race, but they all had their challenges,” Spooner said. “At this last race (in Austin), it must have been 100 degrees, so that was a hot one.”
As the series director, Carter had a solution to beat the heat at the Texas races – he made sure to have lots of cold beverages available for the runners at the awards ceremony. A lot of the adult runners especially appreciated the free beer.
“We always try to make it a party after the running’s done,” Carter said. “We usually have some kind of crazy contest at the awards ceremony and provide food. Burgers and/or pizza, and we even have veggie options. And the foamy beverages are always popular.”
Carter said the 2010-11 schedule for the Texas Trail Run Series will feature at least four races. For information on the Texas Series, visit www.racerevolutions.com.
A list of the 2010 XTERRA Texas Trail Run Series age-group champions can be seen below.
2010 XTERRA Texas Trail Run Series Champions
| First Name | Last Name | Age | Hometown | State | Age Group |
| Luke | Gosling | 17 | Granbury | TX | M15-19 |
| Beau | Johnson | 24 | Houston | TX | M20-24 |
| Jennifer | Chambers | 27 | Austin | TX | F25-29 |
| Johnathan | Wahlers | 28 | Austin | TX | M25-29 |
| Christopher | Chancey | 30 | Austin | TX | M30-34 |
| Matty | Weston | 38 | Austin | TX | M35-39 |
| Claudia | Spooner | 40 | Cedar Park | TX | F40-44 |
| Fred | Gosling | 41 | Granbury | TX | M40-44 |
| Todd | Behringer | 45 | Clifton | TX | M45-49 |