Tarmac Meditations #149: It Never Always Gets Worse

It has been a long year and a half. I have shared here occasionally that both my inner race photographer and my inner Kenyan were layin’ low, lickin’ our wounds and doin’ what ever it would take to lace up and light out once again, with camera in hand, and head to some other place to shoot a long trail race. This past weekend it came about that me and my camera gear found ourselves in Boise Idaho at the start line of RD Jenny Verhalen Stinson’s Foothills 50K Frenzy. Daybreak lay over the ridge, as the usual crew of 145 runners took off.

Me, I went up the road to wait for the light to rise. With the help of Sparkle Patterson and Khara Tina Hamilton I left the aid station at 22 miles and made my way very slowly to a good place for shooting the race. For a moment I was right back into my life as I have often dreamed over the past year, that it might be once again. Don’t know what the next sunrise will bring but I am grateful to have made the start line and to have gotten the job done at least one more time.

More to come…

Photo Credits

Photos by Michael Lebowitz. All rights reserved.