Trail Runner FLYING to the finish line--and an Age Group First!

At the XTERRA Trail Series MA #1--Wallum Lake in Douglas, MA (May 17, 2014)

I haven't run a trail race since last July.

(That race ended badly.

While running a precipitous rocky trail

up and down a mountain, 

I found I could barely see.

A massive blind spot from a migraine 

made the trail, and my feet, 

a flickering blur.

Neurologists call it a scintillating scotoma.

The world looks like a bad neon sign--

broken and fragmented.  Strobing.
Half of what you see is just an illusion.

I couldn't see where to step.

And any misstep would make me tumble!
All the way down the mountain.

Next stop: the ER.

So I quit.

There are three letters every runner hates:

 DNF.

I did not finish that race, last July.)

Haven't run a trail race since then.

But an invitation to run the XTERRA Trail Series MA #1--

at scenic Wallum Lake in Douglas, MA--

sounded mighty appealing.

So I went!

What a great race!

Leaping and romping up and down the rocky trails,

I felt like a porpoise: 

not swimming in the ocean blue, 

but gliding through the deep green forest!

As this photograph shows,

I flew toward the finish line

and my feet never touched the ground!

Thanks, MRA Multisport and XTERRA

for a great trail race!

(A camera I'd placed near the finish line

captured this photo.  So it's a self-portrait:

an action selfie!)