This feels incredibly strange to be typing as a new Covid variant has been identified. But I’m supposed to be running another marathon this weekend… and this time in the science-denying state of Florida. The packet pickup wasn’t sufficiently masked for my tastes… but what can one expect here in my home state? Don’t blame […]

Walking from my airbnb to the start line, I came across another runner who was lost. I was wrapped in a metallic yellow space blanket and she asked if I was running the race. She asked if she could follow me to the start line. While walking, she asked what number marathon this was for […]

Hoo-boy. I took a red-eye flight last night that was plagued by delays – maintenance malfunctions on the first leg and then trouble replacing the emergency equipment due to a medical incident on the inbound flight for the second leg. When all was said and done, I think maybe I lost consciousness for about an […]

It’s an old qualifying time… March 2020 to be exact… but it checked out… BOSTON: 2022

Soooooo… it turns out it WASN’T Scott Bakula who passed me. It was ANIBAL Bakula. And yet… registering under a false name would be something Scott Bakula MIGHT do to throw off the paparazzi. And double yet… Run Kevin Run Dot Com would like to apologize to Messrs. Bakula for any confusion or misunderstanding… and […]

First things first — let’s talk about the highlights of the 36th Annual LA Marathon. Steve and Alexis cheered me on at Bronson and Hollywood and were a huge boost. I was already feeling a bit rundown and sore and this was only about mile 9 or 10. But seeing them helped propel me for […]

Huh. So the strict COVID-19 protocols has us either doing a rapid test at Dodgers Stadium or somebody trained that morning at checking the Proof of Vaccine and slapping a yellow wrist band as if we were going into some discotheque in the 1990s.   Masks were required everywhere, regardless of vaccine status and even […]

Seven years ago, I was signed up to run the inaugural Cocoa Beach Half Marathon.  It had an I Dream of Jeannie theme and Barbara Eden was going to be there.  I was really looking forward to it… but me being me, I had double booked events that weekend.  I ran the Petrified Forest Marathon […]

The good folks at the Tacoma City Marathon Association included freebie professional photos with their race entry fees. This’ll sound like sour grapes but they were ONLY there for like 5 hours… so they shot some pre-race pics and caught the first two loops of runners… they weren’t there when I finished, finished… but maybe […]

I drove around to kill time before my red eye tonight. It’s strange being here, amidst natural wonders and a global pandemic, passing by things I once saw without caring about masks or political vitriol. Meanwhile…