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Return to California, Return to Running

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 I'm writing this from my new home in Yucca Valley, California a few days after running Canyons 100K in Auburn.  Whatyousay? (Aside, why am I blogging? No one does that anymore. What's more, Google's Feedburner blog e-mail subscriptions are going away, so I'll have to port my subscribers to some other service like MailChimp.) Anyway, yes, I'm back in California, I finally managed to buy a house here, and I ran my first race in a long time. I injured my hamstring January 2020, and it didn't fully heal until after my Hayduke hike in September. The only ultra I ran in 2020 was the virtual Potomac Heritage 50K in November, which took me over 9 hours. I started and finished at my house, and I had to call Gf from the far end and beg her to take a cab across town to hide some water and a flashlight for me so that I could actually finish. "I know you haven't been in a car in months, but this is my only ultra this whole year and I really don't want to DNF...