It's Really Not So Scary (Aching Quad-October recap)
Things are seemingly looking up in the running stratosphere. Okay sure my pace still isn’t down to pre pandemic levels and as my half marathon training plan kicks in this month I’m all kinds of second guessing myself but February is still a reasonable way away right? Anyway my race this month is the Aching Quad Challenge… I ran this last year and it was my first live race since the Covid Pandemic and had been morphed from a road race to an off road trail run. This year it was a Hybrid of sorts with the Friday and Saturday night 5Ks back to the road while the Saturday Morning 1 and 2 mile runs were on the trail. Even though this year wasn’t in a bubble there wasn’t a pre-race pick up and instead bibs and shirts were to be picked up at the lakes parking area between 515 and 630. It was rainy earlier in the afternoon and the race would go on rain or shine unless it was lightning (thankfully the only rain was pre-race) and because of the weather we got on site at about 5 because we w...