Never Summer 100k 2020 Race Report
Leading Up to Race Day 2020 has been a strange year. As effects of the pandemic swept across the country in March, my expectations to toe the start line of any of the 5 races that I signed up to run this year vanished (those races being Crown King Scramble 50K in March, Quad Rock 50 Miler in May, Never Summer 100K in July, Black Squirrel Half Marathon in September and Blue Sky Trail Marathon in October). Sure enough, Crown King rescheduled for a date I could not make and the Quad Rock was tentatively delayed from May to August. Things were looking bleak which was tough to deal with as I had begun training in November of 2019 for these races and had been running more consistently than ever before. Disappointed as I was, I quickly realized that these races were small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. The spread of COVID-19 continued rapidly and its impacts were impossible to ignore. I’m grateful and fortunate that none of my loved ones have died from or even contracted COVID-19