My race updates are as follows: I finished the four mile Steamboat race in June with my personal worst for a 4 mile race, coming in at 54:01. This was due to a lack of training blamed on a medial right knee meniscus tear. I received a 38:09 at the Fallen Heroes 3 mile race the following month, also ran in Peoria, with the usual "gateway route". My knee issues have all but went away as we have not been running much since Steamboat, and I received aggressive Kenalog shot therapy. This year is panning out to be a record indoor biking year depending on how my "Hell weeks" in November and December turn out as I plan to ramp up indoor biking and running to numbers I've never attempted. I'm sitting at only 200 biking miles for the year and only 44 logged running miles! I don't log hiking miles. Yet! Usually I ramp up pre season training in January, but this year I plan to change it up for earlier hits to get a good "test period" in to see if I can even think of half marathon training for March ish 2019. That is always the unwritten plan each year!, so I want to take a different approach from an injury prevention and cardio demand standpoint. Hopefully on the next post I will update what I'm using for supplementation these days and the hardware I like to use, from biking, running, and gps tracking. On a side note, I finally graduated SIU in may! Happy running.