Running a Real Race
I know that this may come as a surprise to some of you, but its astonishingly difficult to write a blog about running when there aren't any races taking place. Shocking, I know. Actually, that's mostly me giving myself an excuse... I could have been writing about any number of things, from how I've been keeping active in the era of Coronavirus to how my Crohn's has been reacting the last couple months. But now I have NO excuse, because this past weekend, I ran my first (non-virtual) race since February! And to make it even better, it was one of my absolute favorite courses... The Collinsville Classic 10k! Running along the Farmington River on a well-tended linear trail? Doesn't get much better than that! Ok, besides the fact that this race is usually in May and its never failed to rain until this year (it was the opposite, in fact... 85 degrees and sunny), there were definitely some differences between this and a 'normal' race. Accommodations obvio...