[Day561]

It was a quiet week. I did very little running, maybe 3 miles logged.

I did not have the motivation.

Also, we had a few days of smoky air quality due to smoke from forest fires in Canada. We are a thousand miles away but we had a code red/purple day. It smelled like a camp fire outside. Some still ran. I took that as an excuse to stay indoor.

Air quality improved significantly over the weekend and we had a small shower Monday. I still stayed indoor.

I did some house chores. Some long overdue cleaning. Afterward, I just crashed in my living room. My car needs upkeep too. I plan to do my own oil change to save a few bucks.

The most significant thing I did was to look into my Burning River race in Ohio. I signed up. A friend I met at the Old Dominion Race Weekend said he will try to line me up with a pacer. So I have to start bustling with my training. I put together a pace chart and kind of formulating my race strategy. This is the first step. I watched some videos on the race. I need to do more. I pulled up a friend’s Strava from last year. She ran this course. I hope to gain some insight from her time splits. I need to do a detailed course study. Good thing about this race is there are a lot of information available.

Now how do I get there. Driving will take me 8 hours. It is not necessary cheaper. Flying is about $350-400, then an hour drive. Akron has a regional airport, but not sure how long the flight to there. It might be better for me to fly to Cleveland and then drive the rest of the way.

That’s it for now. Race management is a chore for me. I try to avoid them. I love signing up races, but as to the logistics, I don’t like it. Though of I don’t plan ahead, I would end up with no place to sleep and no flights booked.

As I was writing this, I went ahead to sign up two other races, the Bay Bridge 10k and the Hayden Lake Marathon (Idaho). I am excited.