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New Year’s Day: to Run or Ride Torn between a New Year’s Day race or bike ride, and sad that I’d missed the previous year’s New Day New Year 5K, I texted my friends to see who was running. Three friends were running so I registered. My decision turned out to be a good one […]

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Disclaimer: This recap fo the Virtual 2021 New Year’s Day 5K contains affiliate links…   Starting 2021 Off Right With a Race With 2020 being somewhat of a bust of a year for my running and racing, I began looking at local races I could run on New Year’s Day. I found two races, one […]

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FOMO While reminiscing through texts with my friends about how much fun we had at last years New Year’s Day race, I signed up to bring in 2019 with equal fanfare at the New Day New Year 5K. Because I’d been experiencing some pain in my right glute/hammie, I had waited until the Friday night […]

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I usually prefer not to run winter races… It’s not that I don’t have a lot of fun once I get going, but rather, I don’t like freezing while standing around waiting for the race to begin that’s the deterrent. When running a 5K, though, I always go on a one-mile warmup run timing it […]