Life Without Running

After catching my breath and leaving Charlie with Stacie I headed to the east coast with the intention of doing races in my last four states: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont. My original plan was to do the northern two in one trip and then go back to Saint Louis, get my treatment on June 6th and then go back to get the last two. After getting to Stacie’s and doing some reevaluating I decided it would be smarter to stay back east and do two states each on back to back weekends rather than make the drive out and back twice. Man was I glad that I made that decision after my drive to Rhode Island. I’m truthfully not sure I had two trips out and back in me and I would have hated to finish this trip with only 46 states.  The most eventful parts of the trip out were the two dinners I had in Columbus, Ohio and Apalachin, New York. Skyline chili and an an open faced roast beef sandwich. After the sandwich it was still early so I ordered a piece of cake to go. It was huge 😳. T...

The trip to Colorado was uneventful and that’s always a good thing. The low point was watching the Bruins bow out of the playoffs earlier than anticipated. We spent our first night in Colorado at the Spells and Anna prepared some really good tamales we were easing into Cinco de Mayo “season”. 🫔 I even got Republican Rob to drink Bud Light with me despite giving him a hard time about being a Pence lookalike.  The next day on the way to Joe’s in Monument we made a stop at the Greenland Open Space for a short walk. I was working my way up in altitude to hopefully prepare for a few days at altitude including a Reunion Run at Garden of the Gods.  I knew race day, the 6th would dictate what I probably shouldn’t eat for pre-race Cinco deMayo so we decided to do our meal on Cinco de Tres. I found a place online called Torchy’s Tacos and since my Hot Stuff tattoo was their trademark I knew it was the place to go for a margarita and Mexican. As usual food will have a central part in th...