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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.

08/11/2026

RAW #653.

livfenneken birthday was recently. Is it her birthday today? No.

Are we going to continue celebrating it anyway because we have a photo of her standing in Mean Eyed Cat next to an open flame? Obviously.

Olivia is a former D1 runner from Kent State who escaped Ohio, moved to Austin, found RAW and apparently decided that after years of collegiate running what she really needed in her life was to spend Tuesday nights doing 1Ks with people who drink b**r afterward.

Great judgment.

Tonight: **WOODMONT RELAYS.**

This one is simple enough that even the people who completely ignore the announcements should be able to figure it out.

Find a partner.

You alternate ~1000m loops around Woodmont / Exposition.

A group: 5 loops each = 5K of hard running
B group: 4 loops each = 4K of hard running

While your partner runs, you recover.

Which means you get roughly four minutes to:

* breathe
* question your pacing
* tell everyone you “felt controlled”
* watch your partner come screaming around the corner
* realize you have to do it again

The goal is for everybody to finish around the same time. The actual outcome will depend largely on whether someone goes completely insane on rep one.

6.45p — Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — announcements
7.05p — warmup leaves
7.20p — workout starts
8.20p-ish — b**rs and continued celebration of Olivia’s no-longer-current birthday

First timers: sign the waiver at [www.raw.run](http://www.raw.run).

It’s August. It’s Austin. Hydrate before you get there. Bring water if you signed up. Tip your bartenders. Don’t drink and drive.

And happy birthday again, Olivia.

We intend to keep saying that until at least September.

RAW #653. See ya tonight. Go .

08/04/2026

RAW #652: **Rollingwood Hills**

Tonight’s workout is very simple:

**hills, hills, hills.**

We’re headed to Rollingwood for one of RAW’s classic lies:
“it’s just one hill.”

Yes, it is one hill.
No, that does not make it easy.
In fact, this hill is 540m of pure dishonesty.

We’ll hit it **4–6 times**, which is intentionally vague because RAW has always believed that numbers should feel more like suggestions than promises. There’s also a shorter option, so if you’re reading this and already trying to negotiate with yourself, relax. We have something for everyone.

Schedule:

6.45p — Meet in front of Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — Announcements
7.05p — Warm up to the start
7.20p — Workout starts
8.20p-ish — Back to Mean Eyed Cat for b**rs, lies and selective memory loss

First timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run
Everyone else: hydrate before you show up, bring water if you signed up, and prepare to learn that “deceptively tough” is just polite language for “this hill is .”

Also, let the attached photo serve as an important reminder:
**drinking out of your shoe is not required for tonight’s workout.**
It is, however, apparently part of RAW’s broader cultural heritage.

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

07/28/2026

RAW #651 and today we’re featuring Lina Nguyen , who has spent her life using running as a shortcut to figuring out new cities.

She’s lived in Cincinnati, Atlanta, Nevada, Cleveland and Austin, went to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for undergrad, picked up an MBA from INSEAD , and somehow still decided the smartest use of a Tuesday evening was running hard around Zilker with us.

Lina followed the standard RAW onboarding process:

1. Move to Austin
2. Find RAW
3. Discover that we’re gritty, direct and enjoy hard workouts
4. Start showing up every single week
5. Become permanently attached to a bar on West 5th Street

She says what makes RAW work is the balance between hard running, community and having fun. We agree, although historically the “having fun” portion has lasted considerably longer than the workout.

Tonight is the **Zilker Fartlek**, which means the workout structure will be revealed whenever the people leading it decide what they feel like doing.

Could be 3 minutes hard, 3 minutes easy.
Could be 2 and 2.
Could involve dice.
Could be something someone invents while we’re jogging over there.

The only certainty is that you will run hard, recover briefly and eventually wonder why “fartlek” is still the internationally accepted name for this.

6.45p — Meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — Announcements
7.05p — Warmup leaves
7.20p — Workout starts near the Zilker volleyball courts
8.20p-ish — Return to Mean Eyed Cat

Bringing water or meeting us there? Go directly to the volleyball courts.

First-timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run
Everyone else: hydrate, tip your bartenders and don’t drink and drive.

🎥 Under Armour Run
🎤 Lina Nguyen

See ya tonight. Rain or shine. Go .

07/21/2026

RAW #650. Six hundred and fifty Tuesdays of running, drinking responsibly and convincing strangers from Instagram that we are significantly nicer than we look.

Today’s featured winner is Morgan Kelley who followed RAW for an entire year before finally showing up because everyone looked too fast. A completely understandable mistake. We are actually very nice. We just photograph well while suffering.

Kelley has now been coming for about two years, made a boatload of friends and correctly identified what RAW allegedly stands for:

Running. Alcohol. Winning.

And you’re a winner if you show up. Her words, not ours. Please direct all complaints to Kelley.

Tonight’s workout is appropriately called the **F**k It Workout**.

IMPORTANT: **WE ARE NOT GOING TO THE TRACK.** Read that again before you wander over there alone and begin reevaluating every decision you’ve made since childhood.

We’re meeting at the boat ramp and doing partner 800m repeats on the trail. You run an 800. Your partner runs an 800 while you recover. Continue until someone says “f**k it,” which is presumably how the workout got its name.

6.45p — Meet at Mean Eyed Cat
7.00p — Announcements
7.05p — Warmup
7.20p — Workout starts
8.20p-ish — Back to Mean Eyed Cat

If you’re driving or bringing water, park near the track and meet us at the boat ramp.

First-timers: sign the waiver at www.raw.run
Everyone: hydrate, bring water for the crew if you signed up, tip your bartenders and don’t drink and drive.

Also, Under Armour Run, Kelley is wearing your shoes while publicly endorsing Running, Alcohol and Winning. Feels like a sponsorship opportunity.

See ya tonight for RAW #650.

📹 Morgan Kelley
👟 Under Armour Run

07/15/2026

🚨 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 b**r 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

07/14/2026

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 📸🎥🏃🏻

07/07/2026

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 b**rs / 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.

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