A new year has arrived and with it one of my favorite races, the Snow Flurry Scurry, which begins at Lost River Cave right here in Bowling Green, KY. This is one of about a dozen or so 5Ks in town and one that I try to run each year. Even an ultrarunner can enjoy blazing along a 5K course every once in a while and I find the change in pace to be refreshing. It’s so easy to get stuck thinking about the miles that I have to put in each week and vacillate on whether to run a particular race or whether to just get my work in. It’s unfortunate but all long distance runners can fall into this mode of thinking, which of course can be perfectly appropriate at times. We all must decide what races we want to run and how seriously we want to approach an event and I would never discount the importance of sticking to a plan! Last year I caught the Snow Flurry Scurry on a long run Saturday and if Strava is to be

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