Beautiful area, and a surprisingly flat run considering how far into the mountains we were. Weather was perfect. Started in town, out along a creek and then back in. We looped around so I got to see Chris at one point.
80s Flashback 5KAugust 2025 – Franklin Beautiful area out in the mountains. The course went along the Tennessee River Greenway so was flat. Cloudy morning but the rain held off for us and it was a pretty run along the river.The whole weekend was just delightful. Franklin is a beautiful area with some great hikes…
Tar Heel Ten Miler April 2016 – Chapel Hill This one was closer to home, right in Chapel Hill.During training I ran lots of hills because of the Laurel Hill challenge. I was nervous, there was so much talk about how hard it was and what an awful hill it was – it would ruin…
Seaboard Festival 5K October 2024 – Hamlet 5K tied to a Seaboard Train festival. Nice run through town before the festival kicked into gear. Good weather and a cute town. After pancakes we made it back into town to checkout the festival & Seaboard Train museum.
Nags Head Woods 5k May 2015 – Nags Head Dare county was another run with Jerry. Many of the Usual Suspects were at the OBX for the weekend, on a whim we looked for a 5K in the area that weekend, and found one. While everyone else slept in at the B&B we ran a…
Azalea Festival 5K April 2014, Wilmington This is where it all began……For some unknown reason back in my mid-40’s I figured I had better run a 5K before I hit 45 years old. After crossing that finish line, I’ve kept on going.Nervous, excited, ecstatic all explain how I felt that morning. I remember part of…
Power For Purple 5K June 2023 – West End Nice race through a park and residential area. We really enjoyed the Sandhills region in general both for the 5k and jut playing tourist.