This was a somewhat serendipitous choice — a cousin lives in Oregon, so I found a race near him so that we (me, my mom, his mom) could visit! Sunset on Springwater had a half marathon, 10k, and 5k; my mom, his mom, and he decided to do the 5k while I had registered for…
I say “a summer of 5ks,” but what I mean is three 5ks. But I’m getting ahead of myself. When we visited New Orleans, my mom and Aunt S took notice of the 5k participants. On our way to the Expo, we caught the back of the packers — one was even reading a book!…
Run the Bluegrass again? Yep! But not the half. I signed up for the 7-miler. If you need a reminder, this course is hilly. That’s not any kind of exaggeration. I’m not saying “hilly” and meaning “a few, small inclines.” I mean hills. Don’t think the 7-miler has fewer hills just because it’s a shorter…
Sometimes when you have meetings in Kentucky, you get to tour the oldest continuously operating distillery in the United States afterward! Shockingly, the Buffalo Trace Distillery is not on the Bourbon Trail. The Sazerac Company, which owns Buffalo Trace, withdrew their membership from the Kentucky Distillers’ Association in 2009 or 2010. However, Buffalo Trace is…
This is the first 10k I’ve done. I’d originally signed up for the half, but due to some time constraints with traveling family, we had to get back home by a certain time on Sunday. I dropped down to the 10k since there was no way I’d finish the half early enough for us to…
This year feels like a blur. I’ve traveled a lot thanks to my Run 50 goal. I finished five half marathons but zero full marathons. I kissed the Blarney Stone. I was (kind of) promoted at my place of work. I developed friendships. I watched a lot of movies. I failed in a lot of…
One of the neat things about the Kentucky Theater is that not only do they show a mix of mainstream and independent movies, they have special showings that feature local work. A friend of mine mentioned that the Kentucky would be premiering a TV pilot called Rayden Valkyrie: Saga of a Lionheart. She wasn’t able…
I’m not running in the Dublin Marathon.
So Alaska was not my last half of the year after all. In my training plan, I realized that I had two 13.1 long runs scheduled, so I figured I might as well register for a couple of halfs and kill two birds with one stone: the training run and a state.
I was in a hurry to get Alaska done. My “strategy” is to do a mix of close and far away states during a year so that I’m not left with a lot of expensive travel in the final races of my Run50. Alaska is the furthest state from me, so I started looking for…