Today is a good day to run: Its a new year!

A new year, a new age and a new challenge. I hope this year is going to be better and continue to get better. I haven’t written here in a few years so I am now in my sixties and still trying to do what I did in my 50s and 40s and it’s not where I was but I am still out there and still going and doing crazy stuff! Hopefully, I will do better this time at keeping up with some posts of places I have gone to.

New challenge is an one month 4 days a week 5k run, walk, hike or 10k bike and then 3 days of strength training. This has encouraged me to start doing Yoga again. Since the pandemic I haven’t found a class I like since my girl moved out of town. I have lost so much mobility and feel tight all the time.

I guess I should talk about last year. I was really happy with the way it went, no real injuries to stop me and even got to run 1 mile in a new state that I visited that I haven’t ran in before, that was great because I know I will never do the Marathon 50 state. July was my best month of the year, I went to Fla to visit my daughter and then later after coming home for a few days headed out west. I went with my son and friend to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, So Dakota and Ark. We hiked at Yellowstone NP and the Grand Tetons NP. The only place that I didn’t need my one mile was Ark, I run over there a few times a year. It was an awesome vacation month!

I did a lot of races last year, two marathons, 1 – trail, Almira and 1 road – St Jude Marathon. Lots of trail fun races over in Ark, love running Mt. Magazine and Mt. Nebo. I even camped out for these runs. I did two 25k trail races, Grits and Guts and Walking Tall (4^th one). There was two half marathons, Big River Crossing and MRTC Half marathon. Plus a lot of misc runs/races both road and trails.

I hit all my goals I set up last year, 1628 m, 469:04 hours of exercises, and 95,054’ of elevation. 5,054,054 steps and Annie, my dog, got 134 miles with me.

So here are some of my highlights of last year on the trails or roads.