2023 Year in Review - Excellent year of running - Completed 2 ultra-marathons and 10 full marathons - Life-time total = 93 full/ultra marathons - 4 full marathons in USA (Atlanta, Buffalo, San Francisco, Chicago) Altanta Marathon - location of 1996 Summer Olympics - Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site - World of Coca Cola - Zoo (with Panda Bears)

Buffalo Marathon - Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site - Buffalo Marathon has a 1 km dog walk! - driveable from Toronto! Will return to this race in the future

Niagara Ultra 50 K - Always a favourite; 10th time finisher

San Francisco Marathon - Amazing experience running on the Golden Gate Bridge! - Very expensive city to live (and steep hills) - Alcatraz Island - Saw the most curved street (Lombard Street) - Chinatown

That Dam Hill - Earned my first belt buckle (45 times X 2.253 km = 101.38 km) taking 18:21:13.6 hours

Chicago Marathon - successful in lottery (70% chance) - super organized from start to end -- best of the best - 48 000 people