Pumpkin Hollar Hundred- Why I Run Part One
This story is three months late. It took some self reflection to truly process the experience and will be joined by some companion pieces on other races soon. Why do I Run: Pumpkin Hollar Hundred We were fresh from an international flight after spending four days in Paris. She met me there as I was coming in from my two week trip volunteering in Togo, Africa. We had not seen one another for two weeks and were enraptured being together, being in a new country, and we did it all on foot, walking on average 14-16 miles a day. We arrived home Thursday and on Friday left again. So, we spent four days days walking around a foreign city we didn’t know, came home, unpacked one suit case only to load up four others: for myself, Jessy, and the two kids. We loaded everything into our small Ranger truck and drove four hours north into Oklahoma. We dropped the kids off with a close friend and babysitter and continued North to Talequah to the race site. Here, we climbed in th