Gordo Running

 After coming back from Cappadocia , we headed back into the craziness that is Istanbul. And we still had plenty of touristing to do and not a whole lot of time to do it. The friendliest worker at Erten Konak was happy to see us. He reminds me of my father in law. He was always smiling a genuine smile, didn't speak English but was quick to let me know that he prefers Real over to Barca.  We only had a short time to shower and drop off our things at the hotel after the late-morning arrival. Luckily, they hadn't moved us out of our upgraded room like they said they probably would. Lucky for us but it probably means they had a no-show. The first part  of Istanbul had been about seeing as many of the greatest hits as possible. We still had some star attractions to get to.  First off was the spot of the ancient hippodrome. Only a few hundred meters from our hotel, it hadn't been on our way to anywhere else and we hadn't seen it yet. The hippodrome is also known as the Sul...

Maybe you've seen comedic depictions of that guy that has friends over so he can force them to sit through a slide show of every single picture of his family vacation while overexplaining each individual picture. That's that this next series of posts will be. Really, these are more for me and Mila to help remember the fine details of the trip. How many trips have you taken that just a decade later you aren't sure which year you even went? There will only be a little bit of running in this supposed running blog (that I haven't added to in a couple years) It was a bit chilly I'll start with the running.  March 19th and 25th I ran the Tobacco Road 1/2 and Fort Bragg 1/2, respectively. The point was more just to have something to train for and have fun doing. During the first race, I decided to try and shoot for sub 4 between the 2. I did it, just barely.  With a watch distance of 26.84 miles, I finished in a time of 3:59:30.  I'll take it. OK, that part's over....