Road Trip to Run
Candace and I have been weekend warriors all summer. We traveled quite a bit for camping and hiking, biking and running. But September proved to be the travel month for races, bringing us many miles of road tripping to run.
t’s been a while since I’ve written, and I wanted to bring the blog back to tell you all about my adventurous summer! Best place to start is the present, so I’ll let you in on one of my favorite places in Alaska- McCarthy-Kennecott.
When I started writing my blog this summer, I was focusing on my adventures away from my beautiful home, Anchorage Alaska. Now that my sabbatical from work is coming to a close, I’m going to focus my writing about our Alaskan adventures.
On my way to Nepal, I had an 8-hour layover in Dubai. Rather that spending this time at the airport, I decided to book a city tour. I arranged a private tour through “Withlocals”, with Gomez as my tour guide.
Everest Base Camp Trek, the last adventure of my sabbatical from work. This trip has been on my bucket list ever since I watched the Everest Movie, Into Thin Air, in the late 1990s. The village of Namche Bazaar was especially intriguing to me.
I was still taking the antimalarial medications from the Africa trip when I left for Utah in September. This was the trip I was most excited for when planning my summer hiatus from work.
When I decided to take my sabbatical from work, I thought it might be a good time to travel out of the country. It seems most people go to Europe when they have a significant amount of time to travel. My wife and I are more into roughing it!
I drove the long way from Yakima to Packwood. A straight shot would be just about 2 hours, but I’m not done road tripping yet, so I decided to make a loop and drive the Columbia River Gorge through Oregon and then back up towards Packwood.
I did it! I completed my 22nd marathon in my 18th state! This was my second marathon in 13 days, and the big goal of my road trip! With the marathon starting at 0530, I still had a full day once the race was over!!
Press Release 3/28/20
The Inaugural “Hunker Down” Marathon took place on a balmy 20-degree day today on the Anchorage trail system. There was 1 participant, Jen Novobilski, who was also acting as the race director. “I couldn’t get it together to advertise the event, make bibs or order T-shirts,” Novobilski admits, “but it was a great day for the event!” The race started after Novobilski finished her morning bagel and coffee, around 10:50 am on Saturday morning. The start line was set up in Novobilski’s living room. “It was a pretty low key event” she recalled. “I kissed my wife goodbye and I was off.”