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The reason we started RAW was to bring people together and push ourselves to become better runners and improve our fitness. We've all met amazing people and have seen a lot of personal bests go down along the way! No matter what level runner you are, if you are looking for a way to push yourself and meet good people along the way then you've come to the right place!

10/20/2026

RAW #663.

Back to Pease Park tonight for Rainbow Bend Loops, because apparently we looked at a perfectly good hill and decided we had not run up it enough times this year.

2–3 loops.

The route is simple:

Hard up the hill.
Jog easy.
Left on Rainbow Bend — go .
Right on Windsor — recover and begin lying to yourself about how good you feel.
Right on Parkway — go all the way back to the start.

Then do it again.

And possibly again again.

The beautiful thing about this workout is that after the first loop you know exactly what’s coming.

The terrible thing about this workout is that after the first loop you know exactly what’s coming.

6.45p — meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — workout starts at Pease Park
8.20p-ish — back at Mean Eyed Cat for b**rs and aggressive revisionist history about how easy the hills felt

Meeting us there / bringing water:

1100 Kingsbury St
Austin, TX 78703

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

And based on the photo, somewhere in the middle of tonight’s workout you will apparently begin explaining your pace strategy to an invisible person with both hands.

RAW #663.

Rainbow Bend.

See ya tonight. Go .

10/13/2026

RAW #662.

Tonight we’re doing The Deibel, which remains one of RAW’s greatest examples of taking a perfectly nice residential street and turning it into a place where people question their life choices.

5 x 1200m on Possum Trot.

We start every 8 minutes.

So the faster you run, the more recovery you get.

Capitalism, but for intervals.

Rep 1: wow this feels good
Rep 2: okay, still under control
Rep 3: interesting
Rep 4: Bryan Deibel will answer for this
Rep 5: transcendence

It is very, very fun.

6.45p — meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — workout starts
8.20p-ish — back to Mean Eyed Cat to begin rewriting history and telling everyone you “felt pretty smooth”

If you’re driving directly to the workout or bringing water:

2372 W 12th St
Austin, TX 78703

ALSO:

We need a few more people to help volunteer at the Livestrong event this weekend.

If you can lend a hand, we have some slots we need to fill and the signup link is in our stories.

This is your opportunity to give back to the community and, more importantly, earn enough moral credit to offset whatever happens at Mean Eyed Cat tonight.

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Volunteer this weekend if you can. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

RAW #662.

5 x 1200.
8-minute starts.
No negotiations.

See ya tonight. Go .

10/06/2026

RAW #661.

Tonight we’re doing THE SCOTTY, which sounds like either a running workout or something you’d get kicked out of a bar for attempting.

It is, fortunately, a running workout.

Back in the old days of RAW, we used to rip loops around Pease Park. Then Scott Kautz decided we should bring it back and, because apparently all you have to do to get a workout named after you is suggest something terrible once, The Scotty was born.

Tonight:

Teams of 2.
Relay style.
One person runs a loop around Pease.
The other person recovers.
Then switch.

Very straightforward.

The only difficult part is watching your partner come around the corner and realizing your peaceful little break is over.

6.45p — meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — The Scotty begins
8.20p-ish — back at Mean Eyed Cat

Meeting us there / bringing water:

1100 Kingsbury St
Austin, TX 78703

AND because apparently we have finally become a legitimate wellness organization, congrats to Fresh Monkee, Austin on opening up in Austin. They’re coming out tonight with samples for everyone after the workout.

Nothing says RAW quite like running relay loops as hard as possible and then immediately accepting free food from a stranger.

Welcome to Austin, Fresh Monkee, Austin. You have chosen an extremely normal group of people for your first impression.

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

RAW #661.

Run hard.
Recover while your partner suffers.
Get a sample.
Drink a b**r.
Pretend this was all part of a carefully designed training plan.

See ya tonight. Go .

09/29/2026

RAW #660.

Six hundred and sixty workouts later, we have finally accomplished something almost as difficult as running Woodmont:

We built a new website.

Go look at it: www.raw.run

It has workouts. Maps. directions. unnecessarily detailed RAW history. And, against all odds, it appears to work.

Please click around aggressively and tell us what we broke.

Now to tonight.

WOODMONT RELAYS.

Teams of 2.

One person runs a ~1000m loop around Woodmont / Exposition while the other person recovers, provides unsolicited coaching and starts doing increasingly dishonest math about how many reps remain.

Then switch.

A group:
5 loops each = 5K of hard running

B group:
4 loops each = 4K of hard running

The beautiful part of a relay workout is that you are never suffering alone.

The terrible part is that every time your partner appears around the corner, your recovery is immediately over.

6.45p — meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — party time at Woodmont
8.20p-ish — back to Mean Eyed Cat

First timers: sign the waiver at the BRAND NEW, BEAUTIFUL, DEFINITELY-NOT-BROKEN www.raw.run

Everyone else: go to the website anyway so we can justify the amount of time spent building it.

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

RAW #660.

New website.
Same questionable Tuesday night decisions.

See ya tonight. Go .

09/22/2026

RAW #659.

PLOT TWIST.

We told you this morning we were doing the Zilker Fartlek tonight.

We are not doing the Zilker Fartlek tonight.

Why?

Because it’s ACL season, which means Austin has taken the best park in the city during one of the very few times of year when existing outdoors starts becoming enjoyable and turned it into a construction site.

Very cool. Love that for us.

So Zilker is closed and RAW #659 is relocating to:

PEASE PARK — RAINBOW BEND LOOPS.

Yes, we literally just did this workout a few weeks ago.

F**k it. It’s a good workout. We’re ripping it again.

2–3 loops.

Hard up the hill.
Jog easy.
Left on Rainbow Bend — .
Right on Windsor — easy.
Right on Parkway — all the way back.

Repeat until morale improves.

6.45p — Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — workout starts at Pease
8.20p-ish — b**rs

MEETING US THERE / BRINGING WATER:

1100 Kingsbury St.
Austin, TX 78703

Please do not go to Zilker.

If you arrive at the volleyball courts tonight and find yourself surrounded by fences, forklifts and people assembling a 90-foot stage, this Instagram post was your warning.

First timers: [www.raw.run](http://www.raw.run)

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

ACL gets Zilker.

We get Rainbow Bend.

See ya tonight. Go .

09/15/2026

RAW #658.

Look at these three extremely happy people.

This photo was taken inside Mean Eyed Cat, which is important because none of them look like this while running up Rollingwood.

Tonight we’re headed back over the river for Rollingwood Hills.

The workout is a 540m hill.

That sounds manageable.

Then you do it again.

And again.

And again.

And potentially two more times depending on how much empathy the people leading the workout are capable of demonstrating.

So: 4–6 repeats.

Why 4–6?

Because committing to an exact number before we get there would suggest that RAW has some sort of organized training philosophy, and we cannot have people getting the wrong idea.

There’s also a shorter option, so if you’re newer, coming back from something, or simply possess better judgment than the rest of us, you’re covered.

6.45p - meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p - announcements
7.05p - warmup leaves
7.20p - hills begin
8.20p-ish - return to Mean Eyed Cat and immediately begin pretending the workout was fun

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

Hydrate before you show up. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

The hill does not look that bad.

This is how the hill gets you.

See ya tonight.

Go .

09/08/2026

RAW #657.

Everybody point at the person who said “one more.”

Tonight is the F**k It Workout, which is named after the exact thought you will have approximately 600 meters into your fourth 800.

We are NOT going to the track.

We repeat:

WE ARE NOT GOING TO THE TRACK.

We’re going to the trail, finding a partner and doing 800m repeats.

You run an 800.
Your partner runs an 800.
While they run, you recover.
Then you switch.

This sounds incredibly reasonable until your partner is fast and suddenly your “recovery” is 2 minutes and 47 seconds.

Choose your friends carefully.

If you’re driving or bringing water, park near the track and meet us at the boat ramp. Do not stand alone on the track at 7:20 wondering where 100 people are. We have explained this now.

6.45p - meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p - announcements
7.05p - warmup leaves
7.20p - 800m-related poor decisions begin
8.20p-ish - b**rs at Mean Eyed Cat

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

It is still hot because apparently September in Austin is just August with better branding. Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

And remember: your partner’s recovery is your responsibility.

So if you love them, run fast.

If you hate them, run faster.

RAW #657. See ya tonight. Go .

09/01/2026

RAW #656.

Look at this beautiful group of people who have absolutely no idea how many times they’re about to run up Rainbow Bend.

Tonight we’re headed back to Pease Park for one of the RAW originals: Rainbow Bend Loops.

The official description says 2–3 loops.

We would like to emphasize that “2–3” is an estimate and RAW management reserves the right to make poor decisions once everyone gets there.

Here’s the loop:

Hard up the hill.
Jog easy.
Left on Rainbow Bend and go .
Right on Windsor and chill out for a second.
Right on Parkway and go again until you’re back at the start.

Then, incredibly, you do it again.

And maybe again.

6.45p — meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — workout starts at Pease Park Conservancy
8.20p-ish — back to Mean Eyed Cat to discuss how the hill was “actually not that bad” after spending 45 minutes complaining about it

If you’re driving directly there or bringing water:

1100 Kingsbury St
Austin, TX 78703

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

It is September in Austin, which means summer has technically ended but nobody has informed the weather. Hydrate before you show up. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

Pease Park is home turf. We’ve been running here forever, donated $10K to the park because apparently we occasionally behave like a legitimate organization, and tonight we’re going to continue the tradition by repeatedly running up a hill for no financial compensation whatsoever.

See ya tonight.

Go .

08/25/2026

RAW #655 and somehow Carlos Jaramillo still looks exactly the same as he did when he first showed up to RAW approximately 400 years ago.

Carlos is a RAW OG, former Univision newscaster, sub-3 Boston Marathon guy and apparently the beneficiary of some sort of anti-aging technology he has refused to share with the rest of us.

He used to report the news.

Now the news is that tonight we’re doing The Deibel and it’s going to hurt.

5 x 1200m on Possum Trot.

We start every 8 minutes, which means the faster you run, the more recovery you get. This is a beautiful system designed to reward fitness and absolutely punish poor decision-making.

The first one feels great.
The second one feels manageable.
The third one begins negotiations.
The fourth one is where you start blaming Bryan Deibel personally.
The fifth one is between you and whatever higher power you believe in.

It is very, very fun.

6.45p - meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p - announcements
7.05p - warmup leaves
7.20p - workout starts
8.20p-ish - back at Mean Eyed Cat wondering why we continue doing this voluntarily

If you’re driving directly to the workout or bringing water:

2372 W 12th St
Austin, TX 78703

First timers sign the waiver at www.raw.run.

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

And if tonight gets difficult, just find Carlos Jaramillo and follow him.

He’s run sub-3 at Boston, he’s been doing this forever and based on photographic evidence he cannot die.

See ya tonight. Go .

08/18/2026

RAW #654.

GOOD MORNING. IT IS TUESDAY.

We have checked a calendar.
We have checked it twice.
We have consulted several independent sources.
Ben Duong and Miguelito are no longer permitted to answer questions regarding what day it is.

Yesterday, certain members of RAW’s highly qualified social media department accidentally posted today’s workout on Monday and told everyone “see you tonight.”

This resulted in an innocent man who found RAW through ChatGPT briefly believing he had discovered a new running group and was going to run with us Monday night.

We would like to apologize specifically to that man.

Everyone else: you knew what you were getting into.

ANYWAYS.

Now that it is ACTUALLY TUESDAY:

RAW #654 — THE SCOTTY.

Named after Scott Kautz, presumably because at some point Scotty looked at an old RAW workout and said “we should do that again,” and nobody had the courage to stop him.

We’re headed to Pease Park for relay loops.

Teams of 2.
One person runs the loop.
One person stands around pretending they’re recovered.
Switch.
Repeat.
Eventually go back to the bar.

Meet at Mean Eyed Cat:
6.45p — arrive
7.00p — announcements, including verification that today is Tuesday
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — workout starts
8.20p-ish — b**rs

Meeting us there / bringing water:
1100 Kingsbury St
Austin, TX 78703

Today’s video is still Obosa because despite yesterday’s administrative catastrophe, he remains significantly more athletic than the people operating this Instagram account.

Former jumper.
6’1.5” high jump.
19’10.75” long jump.
42’9.75” triple jump.

Now we’ve convinced him to become a distance runner because RAW fundamentally believes everyone should eventually have to suffer for longer than 12 seconds.

First timers: www.raw.run. Sign the waiver.

Hydrate. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

And most importantly:

SEE YOU TONIGHT.

We can finally say that.

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