Live from Holloway Park… It’s The Aching Quad Challenge…
WOW! I really wasn’t expecting to be running a live race again at least Mayfaire 2021 and that was being cautiously optimistic but here we are. Originally scheduled for September 11th and 12th this race series was moved to October 9th and 10th due to the rescheduling (and eventual virtual move) of Mayfaire 2020 (I mean really… you think I’d plan purposefully to run a 5K on my birthday and then three more races the following day…) So, in order to run this race obviously precautions had to be taken. The race would be run in four waves of 40ish people, masks pre/post race when not able to social distance, the only provided hydrogen would be a water bottle post race, no group selfies/hugs/high fives… Also… it is being run in a ‘bubble’ of a cross country trail instead of around a few of the city's many lakes. All well and good but aside from a few color runs which were ran on fields and didn’t count for time I’ve only ran on the road so now in addition to being aware for physical dista...