Gordo Running

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....

I wrote the bulk of this post the weekend after the run.  I wanted to edit it with new eyes and... it's taken almost a month to get back to it.   Sometimes the post-run shower hurts more than the actual run.  When you're out of practice, that shower lets you know just where you forgot to protect yourself.  I actually had a female friend suggest a sports bra a few years back.  I'll chance physical pain due to not putting on enough Vaseline, thank you very much.   It's all worth it to run my first in-person race in 11 months.  I ran a few virtual races last year, detailing the one we put on for the family here , and I'm sure I'll get to writing up the rest of my 2020 virtual races later.  The last actual race I ran was the 2020 Crazy Desert "Half Marathon" in San Angelo.  I shared in the  My First DNF  post that I'd planned on trying the 100k at Crazy Desert.  I DNFed a marathon so I decided to pull back to a 14 mile 1/2 mar...