Last weekend I ran the Cheatin' Woodchuck Chase, the last race in the Grand River Valley Charity Race Series. After the race I drove back home to attend the trail conference we were having here in town. It doesn't come up much on the blog, but I do my best to stay active in our… Continue reading The uphill challenge
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The Hogback Hustle (21:25) & The Cheatin’ Woodchuck Chase (32:44)
The final two races of The Grand River Valley Charity Race Series were The Hogback Hustle and The Cheatin' Woodchuck Chase. If you read my previous post, the lost races of spring 2018, you might remember that I committed to running all six of the races in this series back in March, and I took… Continue reading The Hogback Hustle (21:25) & The Cheatin’ Woodchuck Chase (32:44)
Grand River Gallop 5K (21:25)
Last weekend I ran the Grand River Gallop, the 2nd race in the local race series I'm participating in. For those of you who remember, I ran the Grand River Gallop last year too. I felt like I was risking everything when I stood on the starting line, more specifically I felt like I was… Continue reading Grand River Gallop 5K (21:25)
Sequoia Glen 5k: starting at the bottom of the fitness mountain
After being injured for the latter part of 2017 I've been slowly increasing my mileage. Things have been going well and I've been scoping out races to run as a baseline while knowing that my fitness isn't where I'd like it to be. I have to start somewhere and running a race is the only… Continue reading Sequoia Glen 5k: starting at the bottom of the fitness mountain
Hogback Hustle 5K (21:23)
On Saturday I finally decided to run a road race after taking about 2 months away from racing to recover from the Boston Marathon and Ragnar Zion. The Hogback Hustle is a local 5k named after the Hogback mountain range, which actually caught fire 5 days before this race. Before the race I set a… Continue reading Hogback Hustle 5K (21:23)
