The dream: three routes across Egypt

People ask what I’m training for. The honest answer is bigger than any single race on a calendar. It’s three: Cairo to Alexandria, along the Desert Road. Cairo to Aswan, down the Nile Valley. And Aswan to Alexandria — the full length of the country.

I don’t have a date for any of them. I don’t even have the base mileage yet — the actual near-term goal is smaller and more honest: get back to racing marathons at all, like I used to. What I have is a direction: every long run, every marathon block, every entry in this log is one step closer to making those distances feel possible instead of absurd.

I’m putting it here, in writing, so there’s no quietly backing out.