I did not intend to go over a year without writing here but writer’s block and then new interests kept me from writing. I thought a few times about restarting but did not actually start making moves towards creating posts until close to a year had passed. What took me away from writing? Mainly reading and creating videos for YouTube about what I read.

When thinking about reasons why I went so long without posting anything, even race recaps as I kept running, I trace it back to the posts I attempted to write on various topics trying to create whole, contained essays on various points. While I am still interested about all of those topics, I realize now that I spread myself too thin while also setting a difficult standard of writing to maintain in these posts while also teaching full time and pursuing two other hobbies I’m passionate about: running and reading.

Thus, as I revive this blog, I am also narrowing my focus back to the original for the blog, running (and perhaps travel if I’m able to travel again soon.) This post will come first in 2023 of all the posts (race recaps primarily) I have already written and prepared. After this post, I am going to post weekly race recaps or training recaps. Thanks to having a year’s worth of race recaps stockpiled, I think I will be able to manage this.

Thanks so much for sticking with me during this time off. Here’s the new year!