Hello, friends. Happy New Year!
And happy first full week after the holidays!
What a year 2018 was. Apologies for being MIA the second half of it. It’s been a little crazy around here, but in a good way.
There was a lot of travel in 2018 — for races, for weddings, for family visits, and for just fun.
2017
In terms of quantity, it wasn’t my best year — I completed 3 half marathons out of the 6-8 I had planned at the beginning of the year.
But if we’re talking quality, I would consider this my best year yet. I had two PRs, both of which came at a complete surprise, and my average running pace increased by about a minute.
In November, I impulsively decided to enter the 2018 Chicago Marathon lottery.
It’s been a couple of years since I ran my last (full) marathon (Marine Corps Marathon 2015), so I figured, why not?
Also, I’ve recently decided I would try and run all six of the World Marathon Majors — Chicago, New York, Boston, Berlin, London, and Tokyo. I figured this would be a goal I’d work on while continuing to complete my 50 states challenge.
Running the States 