RAW Running

🚨 TONIGHT: Jose Castro AND Tara Schwehm ARE ABANDONING AUSTIN 🚨

After 10 f**k - ahhh - years, Jose and Tara have decided they’ve had enough of the heat, the traffic and all of us, so we’re giving them one final night at Mean Eyed Cat before they escape.

Jose is a RAW OG, which means he has spent years running stupid workouts, drinking responsibly adjacent amounts of beer and graciously allowing us to turn his house into the greatest Austin Marathon cheer station on Earth.

So while everyone else is sad about losing two wonderful friends, RAW leadership is currently dealing with a much more serious crisis:

Where the hell are we supposed to party during the Marathon | Half Marathon | 5K

We have contacted Zillow. We have contacted the City. We have contacted several people who live near the course and none of them have agreed to let 300 sweaty adults, a DJ and an irresponsible quantity of beverages take over their front yard.

Please come say goodbye tonight.

📍 Mean Eyed Cat
🕕 6.00p
📅 Tonight
📝 Tomorrow’s productivity is between you and your employer

Take PTO. Call in sick. Get fired. Claim you have an emergency involving a man in striped overalls and a cape. We do not care. Just be there.

Bring your favorite Jose and Tara stories, photos and evidence from the last decade. Be prepared to laugh, cry and ask them several times whether they’re absolutely sure they want to leave.

And per the official party instructions: if you’re single, introduce yourself to Ari. We don’t know why he has been placed in charge of this, but apparently his responsibilities now include romantic intake coordination.

We love you, Jose and Tara. Austin will miss you. RAW will miss you.

The marathon runners who counted on Jose’s house for motivation, noise and questionable hydration choices are completely screwed.

📸: Courtney Claire

Tonight we’re going back to Pease Park for Rainbow Bend Loops, which is a RAW OG workout and also a very efficient way to find out who has been lying about their fitness.

Here’s the deal:

Meet at Mean Eyed Cat at 7.00p
OR meet us at Pease Park Conservancy around 7.20p

If you’re going straight there, put this in your GPS:

1100 Kingsbury St
Austin, TX 78703

The workout is 4–5 loops of Rainbow Bend. Hard up the hill, jog easy, left on Rainbow Bend and go , right on Windsor, easy to Parkway, then go again until you’re back at the start. Repeat until morale improves or until Mitch 🅿️ or Daniel Duffy tells you you’re done.

This is one of the originals. Fast, scenic, rude in the exact right way, and on home turf. Pease Park has seen a concerning amount of RAW behavior over the years, including us somehow donating $10K to name the front garden after the crew, which still feels like something the city should have stopped us from doing.

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run
Everyone else: hydrate before you show up. It’s hot. Bring water if you signed up. Don’t be weird. Actually, be a little weird, but not medically weird.

See ya tonight. Go HAF. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

📸 pictured: the exact face you make when you know the loop is about to hurt but you’re pretending this was your idea Johnny Pace 📸🎥🏃🏻

Tonight we are doing The Deibel, which is not technically named after the devil, but the distinction becomes less clear somewhere around loop 3.

Here’s the deal: we’re jogging from Mean Eyed Cat over to Pemberton Heights / Possum Trot for 5 x 1200m. You run a hard loop, everyone regroups, we recover together for 3–4 minutes, and then we do it again because apparently this is what we do for fun.

The loop is beautiful. The hills are rude. The shared recovery is the secret sauce. Nobody gets left behind, but everybody does get humbled.

Schedule:

6.45p — Meet in front of Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — Announcements
7.05p — Warmup jog to the start
7.20p — Workout starts
8.20p-ish — Back to Mean Eyed for beers / emotional support

If you’re driving to the workout or bringing water, put this in your GPS:

2372 W 12th St
Austin, TX 78703

Please hydrate before you show up. Please sign the waiver at www.raw.run. Please bring water for the crew if you signed up. Please do not make us name another workout after you because you passed out on Possum Trot.

See ya tonight. Go HAF. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

Ryan Fenton has just been informed that tonight’s workout involves five hard 1K loops.

RAW OG. FloTrack legend. Man who appears to have several questions about how his evening reached this point.

Tonight we’re heading over to Woodmont Dr. and Exposition for the Woodmont Relays. You’ll be paired into teams of two and alternate 1,000m loops:

A group — 5 loops each
B group — 4 loops each

That means 5K or 4K of hard running, depending on your group, and enough standing around between reps to convince yourself the next one won’t hurt as badly. It will.

The groups are designed so everyone finishes around the same time. Unless your partner is Ryan, in which case you may finish earlier while he’s busy telling you a story about the 2012 NCAA West Regional.

Meet at 7.00p at Mean Eyed Cat
Warmup starts at 7.05p
Sign the waiver at www.raw.run

It’s hot. Hydrate before you arrive. Drink something afterward. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

📸: Johnny Pace 📸🎥🏃🏻

Tonight night we’re linking up with Fleet Feet Austin for the “Never Been Better” Summer Series Kickoff at Better Half. The event name is referring to the running community, not the beer. Hope that clears things up.

It’s going to be roughly 9,000 degrees, so naturally we’re running either 2.5 or 4 miles before drinking cold beverages and launching ourselves down a 22-foot slip & slide like responsible adults.

Here’s the agenda:

6.30p — Show up, bother the vendors, hydrate
7.00p — A heroic number of introductions
7.10p — Run starts
7.35p-ish — Return sweaty and dramatically overstate how hard the route was
7.35–8.15p — Happy hour, Cowboy Pools, slip & slide and general foolishness
8.15p — Raffles
8.30p — Go home

There will be water, electrolytes, food and drink specials, prizes and plenty of ways to cool off. Big thanks to Fleet Feet Austin and all the partners for putting this circus together.

Bring dry clothes. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive. Please do not make us explain why you got injured on the slip & slide.

See ya tonight if you want to swing by.

Yo - it’s Tuesday which means it’s time to go . We’ll mention some fun stuff cooking with Fleet Feet Austin tonight (hey Arip Erez come through) and even though William Eugene’s knee is split in half he would like you to know that we have a DONUT RUN this Friday at FFA (6.30am).

Ok but let’s actually get to the real stuff which is tonight. Thanks to Something & Nothing we’ve got a boat load of healthy sodas post workout. We’ll have them there in the coolers. Drink one before you drink 5 beers Mean Eyed Cat (if you drink 5 beers tonight and you drive home you’re never allowed back at RAW. Be responsible).

You also need to sign the waiver www.raw.run

Meet up at 7.00p at mean eyed cat
Warm up starts at 7.05p

The workout tonight is a fartlek. Don’t know what that means? It probably doesn’t matter because you’ll just be chasing Ben Duong around Zilker anyways. However, if you do want to know what a fartlek is use google.com and find out. It’ll be random, it’ll be fun, Daniel Duffy x Mitch 🅿️ will make it a great workout so you can sleep for 10 hours tonight.

Now that we’ve got fresh content from Johnny Pace 📸🎥🏃🏻 and Under Armour Run expect more unhinged posts. Our favorite 🟫🐉and the head of RAW content moved to Washington D.C. (don’t worry he’s not in charge of the Reflecting Pool) Yash Pradhan so we were behind. But not we’re back.

See ya tonight. Tip your bartenders. Keep your clothes on in the bar - especially if you’re a dude. None of you look as good as Mitch and even he manages to keep his shirt on after the workout so you can too Meat Wagon

Heaven forbid Mitch 🅿️ gets a little motion.

Big workout on deck tonight. Unseasonably cool temps but that doesn’t mean you can stay hydrated. Rip a C4 Energy post workout and drink a couple beers at Mean Eyed Cat (don’t drink and drive, though. That’ll definitely kill your motion).

See ya at 7p Mean Eyed Cat
Sign the waiver www.raw.run

📸 Johnny Pace

There he goes again. Yelling at everyone but no one at the same time.

Happy birthday William Eugene !!!! We are thankful for all you do at RAW ❤️🍺🏃💀

📸: Courtney Claire

RAW 644
Rollingwood didn’t stand a chance.

Behind-the-scenes at this week’s RAW x shoot. Excited to see what is cooking!