Half a Year Gone By

Since I completed my first 50 back in April I have been focusing heavily upon my studies with running coming in a close second of activities that take up my time. So many things have happened in the last six months I have trouble narrowing it all down. I suppose working backwards might be a good approach:
1. Ragnar Relay Las Vegas: Still coming down from the high and physical demands of this 12-person relay I am happy to have been able to captain this team. Hopefully we will assemble the team again next year and be even better!
2. Team Challenge had a Sunset 5K where after hiring my coach back I had this race as an evaluation race to see where my conditioning had taken me. I took 10th overall, 2nd in my age group with a time of 24min.
3. Labor Day weekend proved to be a huge pride weekend for me as I signed up for three full marathons over the weekend. I ended up with a full, a half, and a DNF. CAR in CA.
4. Ragnar Relay Great River: What a great time. This was an ultra team and was simply incredible. Alec and I are attempting to put together a CO ultra team.
5. Badwater: As a support crew member this was a chance of a lifetime opportunity to pace with John Wog for 90 miles before dehyrdation took him out hard.
6. Devil: I got my revenge in June when I ran the full Devil marathon and cleared a 5:19 time.
7. Run the Beach: I attempted to break 4 hours with this one and sabotaged myself. Too much Fizz and anti-fatigue and not enough water. Took me five hours but I got a first place!

I have also been back to drill status and have only been paid for one drill so far. ON top of that, I had to pay back 6 days of terminal leave they oversharged me, then my tires finally gave up and I had to fork over another grand on new ones. Schoolwork going very well finally raising my GPA to 3.0.

So.....I think I am back online. I might touch up on some of these races in soon-to-be posts. It depends on how much schoolwork I get done!