A Quest to Run a Road Race in Every State
We began our search for a West Virginia race when we realized we could visit Amelia and Matt in Pittsburgh and easily make a side trip to West Virginia. After perusing the Running in the USA, website, our go-to website for finding races, we settled on the “Capes 4 a Cure” 5K presented by Hope 4 Hunter. The website […]
This post will have a slightly different format because I am letting Mike join in with the blog post-or as he may say “forcing him” to be apart of it. Since this quest was originally his idea, it seems only fair that his point of view be included periodically, as well. Karen: Early on in […]
Shortly after we began our 50 state quest, Mike gave me a trip to Newport, Rhode Island as a birthday gift. Although during the years we have been running we had previously run races in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Caroline, we were now purposefully pursuing our quest. We chose a small 5K […]
When we began our quest to run a race in every state, we had already run multiple races in New Hampshire. So as we thought about our quest, we chose the Half at the Hamptons as our official New Hampshire race. Although we have both run the race, we have never actually run it together […]
Running the Hangover Classic in Salisbury, MA has become a quasi-New Year’s tradition in our family. Amelia and I ran it first in 2009 when we decided to sign up for the Will Run For Beer Series (who could resist?!). The Hangover Classic was the first race of the series. The night before the race there […]
Tour de La Porte, La Porte, Indiana Living in New England has allowed access to a number of states that were a reasonable drive from home. However, now that those states have been checked off, a flight is generally necessary to reach our destination. This summer it was decided that we would travel to Michigan […]
