GOOD MOTHER’S GRACES

runguru May 1, 2017

Or, timing is everything. Or, Good Clean Living.

The USA Half Marathon National Championships were yesterday in Columbus, OH. There were some fast times and great competition. Let’s get a Nebraskan in the champs next year! Those that were half fast got in under the wire, an estimated 4-5K people were pulled off the course due to torrential rains.

Those same rains inundated our swath of the country. Mostly non stop sheets yesterday. Thank goodness the Good Mother’s Graces brought them yesterday instead of in a mere six days. The Lincoln Marathon and Half Marathon look to be Perfect weather wise.

I heard a jaw dropping fact this weekend, still haven’t been able to wrap my head around it. Participation in “Obstacle Races” now surpasses the combined total of marathon and half marathons in the United States. Our sport of running, corrupted, bastardized, co-opted into an unrecognizable mass of untrained, non racing, kind of running but not really, first timers mostly, all about the something I can’t figure.

But not all obstacle racers are non runners. Some runners turn into obstacle racers. I’m coaching one right now for the Lincoln Half. Robert Borer may well surprise everyone except himself and me.

Odds are. Who you picking for the “W”s this coming weekend? I haven’t seen the invited elite field but I figure LRC Racing and Team Nebraska will be omnipresent on the start line.

I’d be devious, coy, disrespectful, and remiss not to mention those two cats that tore up State Farm on the crappiest day in memory.