The Zen of Ultra Running

Saturday July 15 - Rainbow Run 5K  My sister will be studying at the U of MO at Columbia for a semester. She had some time before the school starts so she came to stay with us for 10 days. I convinced her to sign up for a color run 5K because it's always my dream to run a race with my family. My sister is not a runner and hates all kinds of exercise lol but she thought the color run would be fun. So she agreed to run it with me. We ran and talked (mostly I talked) the whole time. We had a lot of fun. 5K seemed to short but for a non-runner that's already long enough. She complained that her legs were tired the next morning lol Sunday July 16 - Lake Metroparks Lighthouse Sprint Triathlon This week I'd been sick. I caught a cold on the flight back from Columbia, MO (stupid germs on the plane). I was still coughing on the race morning and was considering a DNS. I also had been traveling for the past couple of weeks and the training was not very consistent. Consid...

This weekend I had a chance to be part of the Inaugural Canal Corridor 100 Mile Endurance Run, which is a 100-mile run on the Towpath in NE Ohio. The runners start at Lock 3 in downtown Akron, OH and run south to Canal Fulton, OH. Then, they turn around and run north to Vally view, OH, turn around and run back to Lock 3. It began with the race director asking me for marketing/social media advice back in January. They invited me to the committee meeting and the next thing I knew I was in charge of the website and Facebook. As a runner, I never knew anything about what's going on behind the scene of a race. I only thought about how I would RUN the race. Being on the committee of a 100-mile race shows me the other perspectives of a race including getting permits, volunteers, supply crew, course marking, registration, etc. Luckily, we had great people on the committee who brought their expertise to the group. On the race day, my job was to go around and take photos, update Facebook...