Saw this story on BBC web site -- https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-52296313/coronavirus-army-veteran-tom-moore-finds-out-he-s-raised-5m-for-nhs

Even though it's not running, I thought it was inspiring, and it is kind of what ultra-running may be like in the twilight years

Apologies for the drive-by posting again, guys.

PS: Personally I'm getting bored of just running my neighborhood, and miss group runs as well.

That’s a great story. I hope if I make it to 99, I’m doing laps around the garden.

And TRT was just cancelled.  To no one's surprise.  At least not me.

Tahoe rim trail canceled. Race is offering a 75% refund because they aren’t doing rollovers. I’m happy and sad at this point. Sad it was canceled and I won’t be able to suffer through it again. Happy because I’m not feeling 100% and I really thought I’d be getting 5-7,000 ft of vert a week plus TRX workouts at this point in training.

edit: I thought it would be after Memorial Day weekend when George called it. I’m expecting some normalcy after that weekend at this point.

With TRT being cancelled all's I have left on the schedule is Mountain Lakes 100 and a small local race. I have guaranteed entry into CCC next year, provided I accumulate enough points this year. Looks like it will be tough to get enough points even, I'll have to delve into it more closely today to see what I can do.

It was tough, it was a hot day last year. The wife is bumping up to the 43k since Tahoe is no longer the week before. You might enjoy it, there is beer at the end

I might do Storm the Farm, nooky. I thought about it last year but didn't want to spend the money. The RDs are so nice!

holy crap i missed a lot forgetting to switch to the april thread. duh. ive been going to "my topics" instead of through user groups. i though everyone was depressed and gone! i was just talking to Commander keen who apparently did the same thing? anyway thanks Gatsby these kinds of things will only get worse as i age i am afraid. here's my last post from today:

Commander, nice week.

where is everybody? hope you all can get out. it's challenging i know. there are signs at the park now threatening to re close the park like they did last weekend but i have been running with a buff over my face and considering it base building plus some of the roads are closed. went for a long ride yesterday and hardly any people on the trail on a sunny day it was awesome and then i saw the trail closed sign already on my way back. never did get that bike trainer. was close but then i got to the shipping page. performance bike gouging on the shipping if i want it within weeks, so i said screw it. got 81M and over 5k vert on the bike so far this week running will be around 45 if i get out tomorrow so i am happy to have had a big week at least for me.

I went to this park that I hate for a run today. I don't know why I go there, except because I expect to be able to get in decent mileage (they host an ultra there so it's possible). Generally I hate going there because a lot of the trails are grassy (and the grass gets LONG) and there are lots of flies, but it's too early for flies. There were a lot of people there - more than I've ever seen outside of a race - and more importantly they were all in groups, so there was a lot of stopping and waiting at points where we'd have to pass too close (bridges, muddy crossings, etc) AND a bunch of the trails were closed for seemingly no reason. So I hit every section at least once if not twice or 3x and still only got 7.5 miles. It's also very hilly so there's not really anywhere to just run for a few minutes. (The sections that are flatter were all closed, yay.) Why do I never learn my lesson and keep going back to this stupid trail?