Month: July 2025

Saturday, July 26, 2025

10.2 miles – Lake Georgetown – Cedar Breaks Trail Head

I went out to one of my favorite training spots near Austin, the loop around Lake Georgetown, early on Saturday morning. I’ve done a few 5 mile hikes with full pack earlier this summer, but am planning on a 10+ miler for the remaining 3 weekends before my hike. This isn’t the most vigorous training schedule, but I’m hoping it should be enough. I’m also getting my peloton rides in and core and other strength training as well.

We’ve had a relatively cool summer so far, due mainly to the flooding over the July 4th weekend and the rains in the weeks after. There were many deaths and people displaced from those floods. The lakes are also mostly full, something that hasn’t happened in many years. As a result, the trail was also very overgrown for July and had plenty of places where I had to contort and squeeze through, while getting scratched up by branches and cacti in the process.

I went just over 10 miles from Cedar Breaks trail head to just past the Cedar Hollow campground, took a break to eat and hydrate, then doubled back. The heat was fine until around 11am, as usual, and the last mile I really started to feel it. Even with a high of only 92, it definitely felt hotter and I was able to break out my umbrella (one of my favorite pieces of gear) to get some shade as I hiked.

And as always, the longhorns were out and about and had even added a donkey to the group since I was last out here.

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