2009 Torrington Road Race

Congrats on an excellent race, Ryan! Is that your Torrington Road Race PR? I also did the race and set my PR (nice weather!) Unfortunately, I didn't see you so I didn't realize that you and your brother were at the race until I saw your names in the results. It's good to see that the tick bite isn't holding you back. One question...where was Dan?

What I've been doing

I took another week off from running to drive my car across the country to Seattle. I visited Portland too. In nine days on the road, I covered 6,200 miles.

I'm back to running now, trying to maintain my fitness. I don't have any plans to run a race, but I'd like to make some. Can I get anyone who still reads this blog to commit to a race this summer/this coming fall?

I did a yoga class for the first time about three weeks ago. I might do it again tonight. It's only $5/class. The class is held at a local bike shop. Every Wednesday, after the shop has closed, bikes, displays, etc. are moved to the perimeter of the shop to make room for about 15 of us. The class is 60 minutes and challenging. It's not simply the holding of various positions. There's a lot of positions, they're held for about 10 to 15 seconds, and then you "flow" to the next one. It's very challenging if you don't have the strenghth in your legs and core. You think you're in shape? Try it.