[700] March Update

In a blink of an eye, March is gone and April is here.

I accumulated a pile of journal entries to be written.  I know every weekend was busy but now I cannot remember why.

March 7:  Naked Bavarian 40 in Leesport, PA. Was it a good day?  We drove up the night before and stayed in Reading.  We had dinner with a friend of Caroline.  He brought us a lot of sweets – I had Cream Cheese and Lemon cake for breakfast the bext morning.  We were at the start bright and early and got the first parking spot, maybe first 20 spots.  I got my bib.  Caroline and Jeremy ran with me on the first loop for 20 miles.  I went back out for the second loop.  The cutoff was quite close but I made it and finished, avoiding the DFL (dead last).  Finished 10:01:38

March 8.  Reston 10 (X) Miler. A race I have done almost every chance I got in my local area. Somehow, I got Caroline to join in my craziness.  I finished with a time of 2:03:34. We will see if next year too, we will do it again for 3 year in a row.

March 14: Elizabeth Furnace 50k.  A lot of my friends ran this one, but I was quite slow so I was near the last place and only saw a few people. Scott started late but caught up and passed me.  Same for Dan, who passed me could hours in. I kept on trucking along and made the last cutoff at Elizabeth Furnace.  There I left my buddy Bill from PA to finish the final 10 miles.  My time was 10:36.

March 21:  Terapin Mountain 50k.  A lot can be written about this if I have the time.  We went out the night before and camped out. It was beautiful. We had a slight rain.  The course has some big climbs, water, but mostly roads/fireroads and was easy until the final third, maybe mile 27-28.  We had one big humongous hill (mountain).  Barely made it through the last cutoff with 5 minutes to spare and finished in 8:34. I avoid the DFL.

March 22.  Virginia Half Marathon. As if the weekend was not enough, we (Caroline) were crazy enough to go and we ran a half marathon a hilly course the next day, mostly just to stretch the leg out.  I had a time of 3:01:28.

March 28. Lucky 13.1 in Tucson, AZ.  2:34:19.  A lot can be said about this.  Is it my first far away half marathon race?  It was hot, and fun one.  I was out in Tucson to support a friend running a 300 mile (Arizona Monster). I had a free Saturday morning, so why not sign up for a race. It was the only running I did out there.

That was my March.  I had very little training done but a lot of races.  I hope that April would be the other way around, more training and less racing.