The new year is starting off great!

Sydney has registered for her (first) hundred mile race. She’s training hard and following all the best advice.

My year so far is going great! I decided 2024 is the year of 24. For anybody unfamiliar, “24” is a television program about the head vampire from the lost boys uses flatlining to protect the United States from terrorism. It’s pretty amazing.

I had planned to take a break from racing. Those plans have been…adjusted, I guess. Sydney and I ran the “Hangover half marathon,” an annual race on the first day of the year. Usually. We did okay. We weren’t racing, really. Sydney was treating it as a training run, and I was running with Sydney.

I’m doing the Aesics Believe in the Run Winter Grit mileage challenge. It’s going well. I’ve set a goal of 300 miles over the month. I’m already over 50 miles into it. Usually, something comes up to ruin the challenge. Either injury or work issues. Things are looking good so far, though.

To summarize: While my girlfriend trains and works for a huge goal, I’m binge watching old television shows and kind of running, if I feel like it.

2024 is a great year!