What do you do when your friend sends you a text two days before a 10K race asking you to pace her? You enter the race and support her of course! I’m not really one to jump into a race unprepared or last minute, but I love my friend Shelly and she’s got some great […]
This is a special 5K in Searcy, AR that I include on my schedule most years. At the time of Micah’s passing, her brother was my son’s youth minister. Micah was a runner and her family started this 5K as a way to honor her memory and raise money for the high school she attended. […]
August in Arkansas is not exactly what I would consider to be ideal running conditions. Matter of fact, my rule of thumb is, if it’s 7 am then you have waited too late to go run! So when you plan to race in August, one thing you can almost always count on is heat and […]
Twice in a three week period I entered a race unprepared. Just like I mentioned in my Go! Mile race recap, this is totally uncharacteristic of me. I had made up my mind when I started running again a few weeks earlier, that I would NOT be running the Firecracker Fast 5K. My reasons: not […]