Pirate Booty Dash 2020 Photos 49 Mile Drive Albion had me on a high after my time spent with their photographer.  I was really pumped to get back into my Michigan City Challenge.  On the way home from Albion I went back on RunSignUp.com to see if any events had opened back up on the weekend.  Albion has their series runs on Friday nights which I love, but is slightly uncommon in the running community.  I was really excited when I saw that Napoleon had a Pirate Booty Dash that was an in-person event.  I knew if we didn’t wake up I had nothing to lose since I would be registering in-person on race day.  Napoleon was west on 94 towards Albion again but with a dip south below Grass Lake.  I have run in Battle Creek and Jackson metro cities three times since running started back up this month. We got up with no issues and made it to Napoleon with 30 minutes to spare.  Yes, you heard that right.  I changed my Waze to “avoid expressways” on the way home from Albion due to an accident on

   History Hustle 2020 Photos 70 Mile Drive I have been interested in the #RunAlbion series since last year.  I was upset that I missed their opening series race Run the Rock last month. Somehow Run the Rock slipped through my research of races that were still happening.  Their connecting medal design this year is amazing.  I can still receive two of the three medals.  I am so glad this run series was not cancelled.  We have driven through Albion on the way to other runs in the past.  I have always admired the brick road downtown and the North Branch Kalamazoo River. I got worried when I saw the future radar for Friday night.  We had all the right ingredients in Michigan to have quite a night of thunderstorms.  I knew the storms were forming in Illinois and would be hitting the west coast much earlier than Detroit.  I went to work and hoped for the best.  When I got done at work I walked Corky.  I had it set in my mind the run started at 6:30pm.  I looked up the start time to confirm a

   Pastrami Joe's Rueben Race 2020 Photos 80 Mile Drive After three months to almost the exact date I got registered for an in-person race again!  I completed virtual runs for the cancelled races that I had registered to prior to the virus, but did not sign up for any of the many virtual runs offered during the shutdown.  I wanted to save my money for in-person runs when they returned.  After postponing the 7th Annual Pastrami Joe’s Rueben Race once, the race team decided they were not going to cancel their new June race date.  Every week I have been on Facebook and RunSignUp checking the status of runs and messaging race directors to ask what their plans are.  We had gone to Marshall for an amazing Renaissance Festival a week before this run.  The first race back to racing was not only a new city, it was back in Marshall, a drive we were very familiar with and it was a beautiful day to run.  I had been in contact with the race director of Pastrami Joe’s.  She was so nice to save a