Life Without Running

Charlie was happy to see and feel Sun! The best part of our time in Missouri was seeing family and spending time with them. The best best part was getting to see Chase and Haley play hockey together on the Eureka High School B team, seeing Chase bring his Varsity hockey letter home from the banquet and watching Haley play a new sport for her, Lacrosse.  I also got to share National Beer 🍻 Day with Stacie and Tom at El Maguey, the Total Eclipse with Stacie and Chase, some unique tacos at Mission Taco, an amazing lunch at Camila’s, and of course an St. Louis style pizza from IMOs. 

On March 7th the sun finally started to find a little area on my deck and Charlie loved it. I looked at the weather ten days out to see if we were trending better, checked the date of my treatment, March 29th and decided to hopefully leave for Saint Louis on the 30th.  One of the first things I did to prep for my trip was update my “luggage” 😂.  I did two races in Oregon prior to leaving on the trip hoping that maybe that would help me be able to do a couple of races while in St. Louis.  As it turned out I didn’t do either race. The first because it conflicted with game schedules and I didn’t want to miss any games and the second because of a tornado watch. 🤷‍♂️ The Trip Out One thing I’ve said multiple times when scheduling trips the last few years is that I’m fortunate to have flexibility with my travel schedule. My original itinerary had me stopping in Lodi, Needles, Albuquerque, and Joplin before getting to Stacie’s on the fifth day. After the first two days I was ...