Return of the bloody one!

Muahahahahaaa!!!

Since it's nearly Halloween I get that whole Vincent Price thing going on in my head. Scary I know...

Well folks, with some encouragement from afar (thanks MarathonChris!) and some from up close (thanks sweetie!) I am working on getting back into both running and blogging. Not that I really stopped both, but I did slack off for quite a while.

Life has been absolutely nuts since I last posted. Here's what happened, not necessarily in order.

1. Got asked to become head instructor of my own taekwondo school. (Yikes!)
2. Got a call from Johns Hopkins University about my grad school application
3. Got another call from JHU notifying me that I have been accepted to grad school and when can I get there
4. CHAOS!!!!!!
5. Trip to the emergency room (waaaaay to long of a story to go into now)
6. 1 month of recovery from various illnesses
7. Missed my first Ultra (the North Face 50K)
8. Got bummed.
9. Ran in the Des Moines Half Marathon and finished in 2:37:25

So I guess that sums up a couple of months of trials and tribulations, but that's what's been going on.

Hopefully I'm back to the roads for a while and will get some of this sorted out.

Thanks everyone who has written and asked where I've been. It's both extremely gratifying and kind of weird to get encouragement from people that I feel that I know, but have never met.

Thanks so much everyone!
Alex