Well… the Scottish poet Robert Burns once wrote, “The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!” I thought of this quote this morning. I got up on time at 5am, had my Black Rifle CAF cup of coffee, got to the greenway on time as planned, ran a warmup mile and even had a local running group that showed up for their own training run to cheer me on at the start. Sounds good so far right? I started and was hitting my paces at each quarter mile of nearly the first third of the virtual TriSpan 5k.
McKirdy Mile Race Series
I started out back in May doing this @mckirdytrained McKirdy Mile as a way of keeping a goal in front of me and to have fun since COVID-19 was changing mine and everyone else’s plans. I haven’t trained for just a mile since I began running 5 years ago. And most of my training the last few years has been for really long distances. So my first attempt last month was 8:08 mile. I’ve steadily improved since that first attempt and today was the final of the four race series.
24 HR. YETI ULTRA CHALLENGE
I signed up for something really cool this time! It all started when @hkspence tagged myself and a few others about the @yetitrailrunners Yeti Ultra Challenge (5 miles, every 4 hours for 24 hrs – 30 miles total). That initial idea transformed into a calling up of the #trackstreetavengers ! Once we #assembled we had around 20 runners in our group and we rocked this event!
2020 Johnston Health Champions Virtual 10K
Wow! What a day! You’re looking at two guys that just both PR’d!! Yep! We’re even ringing the bells to prove it (virtually of course)!😎. My coach and friend @jim_burrows_runs agreed to meet me as we both had a virtual 10K planned for today. We both wanted to get a new PR. We did socially distance.
2020 Myrtle Beach Marathon
Myrtle Beach Marathon was awesome even with the wind! It is a scenic course which at one point parallels the ocean. I got to see my friends @kristinrunsmiles and Mikie Pylilo whom I met in Boston last year. Isn’t it cool how runners can relate so easily and became, pardon the pun, fast friends😂. Kristin and Mikie really helped me when I was a newbie last year at Boston and so I was glad to see them again and to meet Kristin’s husband Danny who was running his first marathon. I also was blessed to run with my friends Gary Lee, Tony Southerland and Wendy Boyette, who was running her first marathon too.