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When Trista realized she wouldn't be able to come down for Bandera , Tejas Trails said they were happy to transfer her registration to another upcoming Tejas Trails race. We looked at our options, and the two that might have worked, schedule-wise, were J&J (formerly Nueces ) and this weird new race called Spider Mountain . After offering both things up as possibilities to Coach Kristen, she selected Spider Mountain. The only thing left was to select which event in particular at Spider Mountain to do. There's a group of set-distance events: 4, 8, and 12 miles. And then there's a group of timed events: 6 hours, 9 hours, and 12 hours. We figured it might make sense to do something like the 12 mile, then maybe also the 4 mile? Get some good distance in on the hills? Or maybe the 6 hour event, which would be much longer than we've trained up to, but a nice stretch. Coach said we should do the 9 hour. Oh shit. Here's what we knew about Spider Mountain going in. I