PRing in your 40s

Plus: has the influencer bubble burst? Or is it just changing, like it always has? And I'm at The Running Event!

I put together a team for the ON Squad Race on a rooftop in DTLA on Saturday evening, and… we didn’t come last in our heat.

Under the banner of Glendale Runners, I was joined by my friends Sean, Shannon, and

Jinghuan Liu Tervalon

(who I co-wrote a little race recap with), and we had fun. As a team! Yeah, running as a part of a team is definitely a way of making running more fun.

A second positive was Strava informing me that I had achieved a 71 sec PR in the 400m. I am 41 years old, and part of my schtick is that I don’t race (any more), so I was a little surprised.

This was in a high-cushioned, nitrogen-infused road shoe on concrete, I had spent the day shoveling half a ton (actually) of soil, and I haven’t done a track workout for almost seven years. Time for me to dust off the spikes and do some track workouts? Hmmm.

Due to proximity to my old office, I used to run Tuesday night track nights with the South Bay Runners. I left that job in June 2018, but I haven’t run track since January 2018 when I pulled a…