I Did a Dumb Thing

Don’t try a 24-hour ultramarathon on no training.

Photo by Jenny Hill on Unsplash

It happened on National Beer Day, April 7, 2015. After celebrating at several microbreweries in Colorado Springs, I returned home and began perusing the local race calendar on my laptop. And there it was, the Palmer Lake 24-Hour. It was that very weekend, so I thought, why not? Well, here is why not. It had been over two years since my last…