Mario Mendoza Jr.

What a historic season its been, its taken a few days to sink in 🤯. The lady buffaloes won the team district title for the first time since 1983 😮. Way to represent Madras High School ‼️. You are inspiring the next generation, and we cant wait to keep celebrating your incredible accomplishments 🙌🏻 .

“Eyes on the Prize” 🏆‼️

Swipe to see some of my favorite moments ➡️➡️➡️in the last few weeks 🏃🏽⛰️⛪️🎶📖. Training for UTMB wont start until after track season is done ✔️. Excited to see how the district and state championships unfold.

RUN FOR THE NATIONS 5k 🌍🏃🏽🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️APRIL 25th‼️ Swipe to see what makes this race special ➡️➡️➡️.

This run has really fun team vibes 🎊, and is mostly uncompetitive 😜. Its the perfect first 5k, if you’ve never done one before.

Countries from across the world will be represented. And so far 9 countries are in the official team competitions 🇨🇦 🇬🇪 🇬🇹 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇹🇷 🇺🇬 for speed, size, spirit, and a surprise category 🙌🏻.

*you can compete for any country without entering a team competition

🕘 5k fun 🤩 around the old mill starts at 9am.
🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Kids 1 mile at 10am 😊
🥇 Awards and Raffles afterwards

Visit westsidechurch.org/5k to learn more and sign up 👣

$25 for adults
$15 for kids

All proceeds go towards Global Outreach 🔥

We have our first track meet today 👊🏼. Lets go Madras ☀️🙌🏻.

Just turned 40 ‼️Officially a “master” now 😂. Life goes fast ➡️➡️➡️, it’s been fun celebrating with family and friends 🫶🏼. Grateful to the big man above 👆🏻 for the journey and all the lessons.

Swipe right ➡️ to see some raw, un-edited finish line scenes 🎥 from my last race as a professional trail runner for 🙌🏻 🌋🏃🏽.

A perfect finish after such a grueling race 🥇. The only thing I regret is not pulling out my phone during the sunrise 🌅 while I was on the top of Acatenango. Hoping to get some pictures soon from the volcano. It was the most beautiful sunrise I’ve ever seen 😮.

My approach to the race was simply to have fun and complete it. I think that attitude is what helped me surprisingly find myself in 1st at the end. The terrain was so hard it just kept breaking everyone 😮.

The first downhill and second uphill were so technical that I actually broke my leki hiking poles. I’ll post a picture 📸 of it in my story ☝🏼. The key to navigating that type of terrain was to remain calm and playful like a kid doing parkour 🥷. I imagined myself like my son Jair doing obstacles for fun 🤩.

I was able to stay positive and get through most of the vert, which is in the first 50k of the race, thanks to my friend 🇬🇹🙏🏼. Even though we were “racing” each other in the 100k, he kept giving me tips on the course because he has run it every year since 2021. I also gave him some tips and help on how to settle his nausea and get through his first 100k here (he had raced the 77k every year until now). At the 79k we found out we were now in the lead.

I was actually hoping Nando and I could cross the line together. I waited for him a couple times while he battled nausea/vomit (even though he encouraged me to take off and win it), and it wasn’t until the last aid station that I actually listened to him because we got word that third was closing in.

In the end Nando was able to rally back on the downhill and still secure second place 🥈 which was so cool 😎. Grateful and proud of him 👊🏼.

More to come, if I can secure some action shots from the volcanoes…🤓

Don’t worry guys im not pulling a Brett Favre move here 😜, this last “fun run” was already planned as a way to celebrate with the family a change in my relationship with running 😊.

This 100k in Antigua Guatemala 🇬🇹 is for my wife Jade and our two boys. We are here with all 4 grandparents celebrating Jades birthday and taking a fun vacation 🤩.

I’ll be running a 100k that starts at 10pm and climbs all three volcanoes 🌋. The family will get to come watch tomorrow at 79k and finish 🏁.

I first heard about this race on a mission trip and have always wanted to do it. And my friend who ran the 42k encouraged me to do it. It’s going to be super burly but so fun to finally experience these mountains ⛰️.

When you go to bed, please say a little prayer for me and all the other runners 🙏🏼 . Mainly for safety and fun. My goal for this race is just to have fun, finish 🤞🏼, and celebrate with my family.

The new relationship with running begins today 🫶🏼.

‼️last picture i caught the volcano erupting 🙌🏻.

Fun little pro running retirement surprises 🤩. Check these out ☝🏼‼️.

1️⃣ Made it on the latest issue of THE Ultra Running Magazine 🙌🏻. Next to some of my running heroes. Thanks who let me know and gave me a copy 😊. [pic is from Waldo 100k].

2️⃣ The Chapel Run Group🏃🏽 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏽‍♂️ planned a surprise run and celebration for me to celebrate 🎊 🎉 after Kodiak. We got to run, eat, and share some experiences. So fun 💥💥💥.

Its definitely the people that have made this all special 🫶🏻. Grateful 🙏🏼.