Welcome to the Prairie Series.  Welcome to My-a-mah — the other Miami… Oklahoma.

Rotary Centennial Park

Storms across the Prairie all week.  Tornados, Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.  Shared fears with Mom, added my name to the prayer circle & Thursday nite… off to Tulsa. Eventually.  Plane delayed, hours late.  Rental SUV not available.  Prepaid-in-advance… control what you can control.  Two-hour drive thru Indian Nation.  Tomorrow my next series begins — Oklahoma to North Dakota… just hours from the Canadian border.

Hotel check-in, no time to unpack — would pull run clothes & shoes in the morning.  No pre-series bib retrieval.  No pre-series Kroger provisions.  No pasta dinner.  But… I’m here.  On the road again, next 8 days 🚗   New series, new folks, new stories.  Folks here for a long weekend.  And a couple regulars.  That’s me now: #50K every day

Day 1.  Course diverted.  Normal route 20 FEET under water.

Lotta curves, whole lotta laps.  Ran first couple miles, then joined Chey/Guinness Mom for 10 of her 13.1 miles — first day, just couldn’t keep up.  Landscape warm, sleep started to catch me, stomach unsettled.  Walked it out friends.  Great company, great plan.

No win, not the caboose.  Collected my state medal, got it done.

Longest drive of the series ahead.  Rural road & open PRAIRIE.  Spotted a National Park sign in Fort Scott.  Park rangers, safe place.  I’d pull over, just a 20 minute nap.  Quarter-to-6, I’m the only car there.  Argh!

3 hours further: Hiawatha, Kansas.  2-nite stay never sounded so good.

Welcome to Prairie Series