Gordo Running

What's your favorite course?  The most scenic race I've ever run would have to be the Newport Rhode Races half marathon in 2014. The course took us between early 20th century mansions and the coast and our warm up run looked like this But, I wanted to write about those hometown favorite courses.  If you've got a visitor coming to town, where are you taking them to run? My favorite course in San Antonio also has to do with the time of day I typically ran it.  In  Running the Sun Up  I talked about running on the touristy section of the San Antonio Riverwalk early on a Sunday morning.  The city wasn't quite awake yet and the church bells were going.  Only a couple hours later and that section is hard to walk through, much less runnable. We've been here in San Angelo now for nearly a year and I have explored much of the city on foot.  At least, the parts that seem safe to run through.  There aren't many miles of sidewalk here in town. ...

Peter, Alex, and Klock have been bugging me for over a year now to try a tri.  They haven't quite convinced me yet but I have added an occasional bike ride into my training this year.  If my lunch was at a different time, I'm sure I could be talked into doing some laps during lunch too.  Not right now, but maybe later.  I don't know.  I think a tri is in my future, but I don't have any definite plans for one as of yet. This weekend's race was the Lake Nasworthy Beginners Triathlon put on by the San Angelo Road Lizards.  As with other races here in San Angelo, I decided to volunteer instead of compete as I'm still in that "building" phase of training.  This was the first time that I'd ever even watched a triathlon, much less been at one. Show time was 0600 and, to my surprise, Team RWB showed up in force. I'll be honest, I wasn't much help during the first part of the morning.  In fact, I'm pretty sure that I got in the way mor...