Shedd Park Race Report
[Doing the thing where I wrote a long enough race report for B2C2 Slack that I put it here so as to archive all my nonsense forever] I felt like blocked-up old man garbage at Secret Squirrel on Saturday, which is how I knew this might be good. Specifically I felt like I had eaten too much, too late, on Saturday, which reminded me that I get too neurotic about eating enough before the race from the Old Days of IBS when my body struggled to absorb nutrients due to gut inflammation. These days I can show up with less food in me, eat a gel at the start, and race just fine. If you thought this wasn't gonna be a story about poop, sorry. So anyway there's a whopping 11 guys in the field because that's just what 2025 40+ NECX is. I was predicted to finish 4th which is perfect, no pressure but there's a chance that if all the right things happen I can win. But I've been here before and the right things never happen. People are fast. Against my nature, I got the hole...