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Day513 Secrets
TL;DR – ranting of a busy race schedule Things are kind of out of order. This post comes before my Stone Mill report. I tried to keep my November schedule simple but things are getting complicated. Not due to any outside factors but completely this is my own doing. You see, I got a couple…
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Day474 Runner Block
The last 5-6 weekends, I have been running a marathon every week. Some were races and some were training runs. This weekend, I had a lot of time or maybe something inline with being lazy or simply my body crashed. I ended up not doing anything. I have been increasing my volume on my training…
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Day409 Another week
Signed up for Seneca 50K last night before going to bed after seeing their runsignup notification email. This is like a race I have run many times. It felt like a well familiar race. However, last year was my first time doing it and right at the start of the pandemic in our area. It…
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Day356 signup
I went ahead this morning and entered my name into the lottery for Umstead 100. Even it was just a lottery, I felt the apprehension – like can I really do this? I have tried two attempts over the summer to do a 100 mile run but both ended unsucessfully. I know I could do…
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ahh, money and races
Day 232 My tax refund is back and woohoo I celebrated by signing up races. It couldn’t come at a better time because I was so broke this week and wept about not able to sign up a race for this weekend. Race#1 POT OF GOLD. Then a miracle! I saw the money in the…
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Turkey Trot
Day 199 misc Some of friends asked me to show them my medals from races. Here are the couple recent ones. Not all races give all medals. I think it is less frequent for ultra to give them out. MCM and JFK are exceptional. I actually have too many medals from my marathons. I prefer…