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Saturday July 6 2019 Two days after running the VA race with Ryan, I ran the Houston Christmas in July 5K. Becca and I had planned a July 4 weekend getaway to Texas anyway – originally we were going to go to Galveston, but then we switched to Houston so we could visit the SpaceContinue reading “TX”

Thursday July 4 2019 As a nearby state, I had found a race just across the border in Virginia, so my friend Ryan and drove up early that day, about 2.5 hours, and ran the Patriot Challenge Trail Run 10K. An easy state to tick off. However, the course was poorly marked, and I endedContinue reading “VA”

Saturday June 29 2019 I had a trip to visit a friend in Nashville planned anyway, and with my States Racing adventure fully underway, I was looking at all my upcoming social trips, and as long as the state was hitherto un-raced, seeing if I could possibly shoehorn an event in to the plan. ThisContinue reading “TN”

Saturday June 22 2019 Broken Arrow SkyRace – Squaw Valley ski resort, above Lake Tahoe – 11K distance (there are also 26K and 52K options). Part of the Skyrunner USA Series. Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, it is stunningly beautiful. Unfortunately, I caught a very very badContinue reading “CA”

April 7 2018 Our Carolinian neighbour is where my passion for racing started to kick in. It’s certainly where my idea of racing in each of the 50 states first started to spark. With my parents visiting us in Charlotte, I drove and took them on a weekend away to Charleston – beautiful and fullContinue reading “SC”

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.Continue reading “NC”

Thursday July 4 2013 Once upon a time, in another life, I ran a These Colors Don’t Run 5K ‘Color Run’, a Split Master Timing event at Fort Leonard Wood, a plush military camp near Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri. Thursday July 4 2013. It was at the time, insignificant, but now forms an unlikely partContinue reading “MO”