a race this weekend and some thing to kick start your training

so this weekend is my first race of the year, a 50 k snowshoe race (31 miles) its up in miday ut at the wasatch mountain state park...needless to say is should be epic....my goal is 7 to 8 hours of FUN

also my friend garrett who did this race sent me this link, this will be my first ironman in november and to be honest i am looking foward to it