Javelina 100
Writing about this one didn't come as naturally as past races. In the days following the race, my mind was a bit scattered. I finished (spoiler alert) and was proud of the effort, but training for it was challenging and I thought this might be my last 100 mile race. My wife and I recently started a family and when you put the time commitment required there side by side with running, running definitely falls to a lower priority. That's exactly what happened during training -- for my first 100 miler, I averaged 61 miles/week in the month leading into the race. For Javelina, I only managed 42 mi/wk during that same period. In the months since though, I've noticed a void where training used to be. It's driven me crazy - within a week, I've oscillated between being done with running and signing up for my next 100 miler. Last week I decided finishing this would probably help me figure out a way forward, so here we go. I wrote ~90% of this within the week of the race and t...