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Spring Update (March 20, 2024):
We are just about done with the Spring Gauntlet of races. Ran the Ortega River Run 5 miler in Jacksonville in February for the first time. I had a good time and it was fun running a race on a course I do a lot of my daily runs on.
The very next weekend was a bit hectic as I had the honor of helping the More Heart Than Scars team do the Jacksonville Spartan 10K on Saturday morning. It is always a great pleasure to help MHTS assist disabled athletes through obstacle courses. Then later that Saturday night I ran the Jacksonville Jaguars Stadium Challenge, a 5K race around and through the stadium that finishes up running down the sideline and you can see yourself on the JumboTron as you finish. The next day I volunteered at the Spartan Race helping with the starting corral then got to run the Volunteer wave

Then the next weekend on the first Saturday in March I got to run the Gate River Run, which is a 15K road race that starts/ends in downtown Jacksonville next to the Stadium and has a great route through downtown and then on the South Bank through the San Marco neighborhood. It is one big party with bands every 1/2 mile or so and tons of people all along the route cheering you on and handing out all sorts of refreshments (water, chicken nuggets, donut holes, vodka or jello shots).

Now I'm in the middle of a month long break until the next race, Savage Gainesville on the first Saturday in April. I'll be running both the Savage Race (10K) and the Savage Blitz (5K). After that I do not have anything planned on the calendar, so it will be just plain old routine. Gym on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and running on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Inspiring people by showing that no matter how overweight or out of shape you are, you can find fun ways to get fit.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt