Gordo Running

No, we didn't have anyone named Carl on the team.  Nor are we a team made up of solely men.  To be honest, I'm not sure where the team name came from.  But, that's who we were, Carl and the Boyz. I've been wanting to do a crazy long relay like this for a while now.  My brother, cousin, and uncle did Hood to Coast in 2008 and, even before I started running, it sounded amazing.  I like running (obviously) but this race seemed to hearken back to a childish sense of adventure.  Not only an adventure, but people to enjoy it with.  If I'm feeling weak, I have other people to bring me back up.  Also, I weirdly like planning things.  The logistics of getting people to run over a hundred miles together seems like an interesting challenge.  I tried to get a team together for the Gulf Coast Interstate Relay (which no longer exists) a few years back but that fell through, costing me a few hundred dollars.  I have also now done four Beach to Ba...

Hey, maybe I should write a 2016 year in review. Let's see... Biggest "story" of 2016 for me in running and in life was moving from San Angelo.  This was a cultural shift from a big city to a small cowboy city. From a multitude of large running groups and a solid group of reliable running buddies to a couple of different groups made up of mostly the same people.  From running most of my miles with Ryan to running most of my miles alone.  I got to take a bigger part in the local running community though.  Hey, I'm in charge of the San Angelo Road Lizards Twitter now! (@SAroadlizards, we have 10 whole followers!) Additionally I got to charge of the volunteers for a small 5k and am looking at race directing for the first time next year. What else happened this year...  Oh, I started this blog.  Then I abandoned it.  This will be my first post since August.  Granted, I've got a few mostly fleshed out but never published drafts sitting here waiting...