Races! Injuries! Training! Pacing!

2023 was a very busy year, and I deeply regret not posting about each event as it happened. What can I tell you?

Ah yes, the one word I didn’t enter in the top paragraph of this entry that I should have:

BURNOUT!

Two full years of training hard, getting hurt, recovering, training hard again…. 2021 and 2022 were tough.

Not to mention– Covid!

(Which, thankfully, I did not catch.)

But as I confessed to a friend of mine a week before pacing the LA Marathon this last March, “I’m not sure why I’m running anymore.”

So I will tell you what happened with a daily blow-by-blow series of entries, one entry per race/injury/realization/learning experience I, well, experienced this year.

Today is October 1st, 2023, and each calendar day will feature a single race, lesson, or other life experience related to me hopefully reaching my goal to run the Boston Marathon as a time qualifier before Mother Time herself comes by to tell me that time’s up.

So buckle up, and do what your mother told you to do: clean up your room and eat your vegetables.