Nail the Coffin Shut, on 2020

 One good thing out of the rubble... a new PR for annual running miles! Yeah, not much compared to the rest. But, it's what I got and I'll take it. An even 1,050 miles. Tomorrow morning - New Year's Day 2021 - I'll meet Ferrell and we'll complete one of his goals - to do the Rio Resolution 10K run for the N-th (30??) time in a row, even though the race was cancelled due to CoVid. Just he and I are going to drive out and do it. Crazy, yeah. Well. It's what we got and we'll take it.

A Christmas Present to Myself

Sorry, I've slacked in my posting here, during all the chaos of 2020. However, a nice Christmas present to myself is doing a short 2 mile run in the rain today, down to the beach... and setting a new annual running mileage high water mark.  Still a week left, so there'll be a few more miles. In a year of bad tidings on the big scale, this is a nice confirmation I'm still doing well health-wise.

Looking back, my favorite run of the year was 6 weeks ago, when Kirk B and I drove to Carrizo Plain for a night of astrophotography and preparing for the occultation of a star by the asteroid Ophelia on Sunday night. At least as strong a draw for me for this Carrizo Plain adventure was the opportunity to do my most spiritually renewing of trail runs - the 17 mile round trip to Caliente Peak, with the grand vistas and stark, lonely trails of the Caliente Range. It was reassuring that I could still do this difficult run and not limp in to the finish. I've gotten decent control over my psoas irritation, as long as I keep up my hip adductors and glute work. 

So - the CoVid Pandemic and gym and Cabrillo College (no bike commuting) closures meant I didn't come close to setting PR's in swimming or cycling, but I did succeed in setting a new PR in the most unlikely of venues - my running. And without a single race to show for '20 at that. Psoas and other issues kept my mileage down in '17, '18, and '19, and I'm grateful to be back on top in '20. In the "1000  Mile Club" of the SCTC once again!