InTheLongRun

August – National Night Out Caln Police Chase 5k On my quest to run at least one race per month, I knew August was going to present a few challenges. The temperature means there isn’t an overabundance of longer races. They are out there but after traveling to several winter/spring races and knowing there is travel ahead for several fall races, August was a good time to look for something local. I checked the internet and found there was going to be a 5k on August 2nd in Thorn

Several years ago, I went to Virginia Beach for a few days during my last spring break of college. I had no idea before arriving, but there was a marathon going on. At that point, I had no desire to count calories and I really had no desire to run. That seemed like torture reserved for middle school gym class. As I was enjoying my time ocean side on a warm March day, I thought to myself, ‘if I ever totally lost my mind and wanted to run, this is where I’d want to do it’. I sa

Welp, I’m behind in writing ‘recaps’ from my races and I contemplated just starting back up and skipping the ones I missed. But, I decided to pick up where I left off for a few reasons; I like having a history for myself and especially for smaller races, I look for other runners and bloggers to post recaps and thoughts, so I like to add mine to the great internet for others who might be thinking about signing up for a particular race. As part of my goal for 2016 to run at lea