Quantico 12K aka "Catharsis"
So I started this blog ... Decided it was finally time to start a running blog, mostly for myself, but for anyone else that has previously enjoyed my Facebook posts after some of these races. The Quantico 12K seemed like the perfect race to start with. It also took me about a month to type this all up. Hopefully I'll get better at this in the future (had to figure out how to easily get photos added in here from my phone, blah blah blah). One of my 2018 running goals was to run all of the races in the Marine Corps Marathon Event Series , so this was a new race I'd never done before. Of course, this was before I knew I was having shoulder surgery in late March. I planned the surgery for after the March 17.75K and hoped I'd be cleared in time to run the Historic Half in May. I started with the 17.75K (11.03 miles) on March 24, followed by the Historic Half (13.1 miles) on May 20 and the Belleau Wood 8K (4.97 miles) on June 23. And then I didn't really run in Jul