NC – Racing Americana

Various 2018 – 2019

North Carolina is my home now. Unforeseeable five years prior, Becca and I moved here shortly after marrying in Greece in the summer of 2017, and we absolutely love it. Charlotte, and indeed the USA, has very minimal amounts of graded adult amateur team sport, and even less men’s (field) hockey. Missing the competitive outlet which that particular love brought me back in England, I found myself running to keep fit, to challenge myself, challenge others, and to compete.

So here I am – another new hobby, running. Forever keen to avoid identifying as anything particularly indicative, I don’t associate with many other runners, but nonetheless, it is difficult to escape the notion that I am in fact a ‘runner’ now. I am at least into running. And running gear. And I run pretty regularly.

I have run some North Carolina races, but not maybe as many as you’d perhaps think. For this state, I’ve run the Charlotte Knights UpTown Rundown 5K – as Ryan M’s brother, Bill (Sep 29 2018 – 20:43, then a PR); the Time Laps 24 Hour Relay Race team trail event (static campsite) at the White Water Center (May 17-18 2019) as part of The Blue Orchids of Asia Fan Club, running different mileage coloured trail loops for different point scores; and two BRRs – Blue Ridge Relays – with F3 team SBTO and vans (Sep 16-17 2018 & Sep 6-7 2019). I set some PRs in the most recent BRR event, finishing with my now signature 10 mile gravel downhill as the fourth of my four legs…

UpTown RunDown –