Turkey Trot! One of my favorites.

This year Kate and Karen would both be in town, so we could get the whole gang together with our ridiculous Thanksgiving costumes from last year for the first time. The complication, of course, was that Karen would be exactly 4 days out from Ironman Arizona. She wasn't even sure she'd be able to run, and if she ( Read more... )

Some time in 2014, I decided that 2015 would be the year I ran another marathon, and maybe tried again to qualify for Boston. I had vague memories that I suffered a lot the last time I ran a marathon ( New Orleans in 2012), but it's been several years, so the pain had faded to where it seemed logical to do another one.

( Details.. )

Turkey Trot! The only event I've done every year since I started this nonsense!

I never have any goals for the Turkey Trot beyond doing as well as I can, given the circumstances that year. Last year the Turkey Trot was less than a week after I ran a 50k trail run, which meant I was pleased my legs agreed to let me run at all. Some years I'm in the ( Read more... )

Man, the last time I did this race was 2007 (the first year it was held!). Hell, the last time I trained for and ran a road race (so, not Turkey Trots) was the Donkey Dash in 2012. (And I only know that because I checked athlinks. Then spent a long time scrolling back and back and back, through triathlons and trail runs.) So I was surprised how not ( Read more... )