It's so beautiful! I ran the half marathon last year and I'm doing the 50k this year! It's the very beginning of November so it's usually wonderfully cool and damp!

Come back to Oregon and run the Silver Falls 50k! Waterfalls! Hills! I can (almost) promise you'll get mud and not fire this time!

grandson is the real deal. xx

Yes! After my marathon I told my family thanks for the support now leave me to lie here on the ground for a while! 🤣

As Yogi Berra said "when you come to a fork in the road, take it."

That is so cool! The Laz part, the PRs, just all of it! Congrats!

Thanks! The goal thing is tough. Every course, every day, every distance is different. Unless you're out to place, if your goal is simply to run your best race you're more likely to do well and have fun than if you saddle yourself with a specific pace. And trail races have even more variables!

Training plan? 😬 Maybe that's why I fell short of my goals! 🤣

Thanks! The best part isn't the toughness or the community. It's that I'm now qualified, required even, to give unsolicited marathon advice to anyone who even vaguely mentions running! 😁

🤣 Bonus points for the Drivin N Cryin lyrics!

Thanks! But I'm far from tech savvy! Garmin makes our pretty easy to build a custom workout.

Please tell me someone will be at the end with the red "that was easy!" button.

If any grocery store in our county carried it, I would've done the same thing by now! In spite of my Amazon boycott, I have ordered it from them with the early morning delivery option! 😬

I have a couple of stride workouts programmed into my watch. With a 2 mile commute to work, I can warm up for a mile and do strides for the second mile. It definitely helps to have nice, smooth, fairly straight routes!

Thanks! I definitely have a plan for leading up to the marathon that should give me nice fresh legs for that day!

I've only seen a few live in the wild and it's pretty much the highlight of being in their habitat! Not to knock Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, but...
One of the great joys of new places is spotting new critters and plants, especially the cute ones!

So cool! I have an irrational love for armadillos! We weren't expecting to see any in TN so it was a real treat! 🤣

We cut over from Florence, AL to take the parkway up to Nashville and we were so glad we did! It was so pretty! We stopped at a couple of historic sites and even saw an armadillo! An exciting event for northerners! 🤣

Nope! I loathed sports in general. I dreaded the day in phys-ed where we had to run a mile. I walked it.
Started running at 46 and I love it! First marathon is in a month, aiming for a 50k later in the year.