Twenty years ago, my brother and I ran the Los Angeles Marathon. It was his first and my second race. The previous year I had run Salt Lake City as a personal goal… and Steve said he’d like to do one himself. I figured I’d train with him… little did either one of us realize […]
Looking back, it’s astonishing I was able to run this thing in 2006. Every year since I’ve entered the lottery… EVERY. YEAR. Even when it cost $11 to do so. And every year it’s the same “thanks for playing… but it’s a no.” The cliched definition of madness.
I’ve been here before… on the wings of a demon! — “Exorcist II: The Heretic” One of my favorite lines from a not particularly great movie. And honestly, I don’t even think that’s the EXACT quote, but it’s how I remember hearing it. In this age where truth and facts are subjective and/or, well, “heretical” […]
It was so cold…HOW COLD WAS IT?It was so cold that Tarzan traded in his loin cloth for a BLANK. It was so cold that this runner created his (or her… or their) own yurt. It was so cold that I threw on a disposable layer of a sweatshirt and never took it off. I’ve […]
Rain. They said it would rain and it did. At 4 AM as we waited in the corrals for the 5 AM start. It was warmer than previous day (small mercies) but using my runDisney Space Blanket as a makeshift poncho, I felt both chilled and soaked to the bone while crowded into an unpleasant […]
Another day, another 2:30 AM wakeup… which I will be nostalgic for come Sunday when the Marathon starts a half hour earlier. By this point, we all know the drill — I whine a bit, I post a few photos, and we all go home a little more pixie-dusted, a little more tired, a little […]
I’m a bit frazzled. The LA Wildfires rage and I’m back home running the Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge. My apartment building though is under an emergency evac adjacent “warning”, right on the line of the mandatory evacuation order. Friends are dealing with shelters and fallout. And here I am dressed up like Waldo to […]
Doing the numbers: 5K : 110K: 1Half Marathons: 3Marathons: 21
It used to be I could do a multi-day, multi-race event series. Those days are so far in the rearview that they cannot be seen… they are assuredly not closer than they appear. That said, if the field is small enough, everybody can be a big fish. On a whim, I signed up for the […]
When is a marathon only 13.1 miles? When you get this text at 2:33 AM: I actually didn’t get it until I pulled into the parking lot at 3:06 AM. They offered marathoners the option to run the half and still get a refund on their race — which is incredibly generous given it was […]