Pinhoti 100 - I'm Back!
Eight months ago I went to South Carolina for hip resurfacing surgery. After a couple weeks I could walk a couple miles a day with Cocoa the dog. By mid-April I was riding the stationary bike and slowing walking up and down small stairs at Harvard Stadium. At the end of August - 6 months post-surgery - I was allowed full activity without restrictions and began running pain-free for the first time since January 2018. Hiking 100 miles is something I'd done twice in 2018. My hope was that this time I could do at least a bit of running (by which I mean light jogging). Pinhoti is the first weekend in November which also makes it the last chance to get a Western States 100 qualifier. I'd have to go a bit faster than I did at Massanutten and Grindstone in 2018 because of Pinhoti's 30-hour time limit, but I figured that Pinhoti was easier than the mud pit that was the Massanutten 2018 course and it has a normal morning start instead of Grindstone's evening start that makes pe