What the–?! I had pretty much submitted it as a lark, as a “well, it’s nice just to be nominated.” But looks like I’ll be (back) in Boston in April.

Got an email today from the BAA: I thought my qualifying time was 3:15 and below… and that probably is true for actually getting to toe the start line.  But according to the link above, for my age group the qualifying time is 3:20. Even that has proven elusive to my old, fat, covid-19 pandemic […]

An hour before my flight to Portland yesterday, as i sat in the LAX remote terminal gate area, I received this email: I debated what to do and finally scrambled to cancel my flights, my rental car and hotel. All told the fees to do so to get e-credit for later use was $40, plus […]

Well. That may have been the worst run I’ve had all year. And that’s saying something given the last few races have left me questioning the very idea of running anymore. I had something of a panic attack around mile 13. I couldn’t catch my breath and felt like my heart was going to beat […]

No thanks to a chaotically managed series of delays and gate changes courtesy of Southwest Airlines, I finally made it to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. By the time my flight landed, the expo and bib pickup were long since concluded.  The marathon is tomorrow morning; thankfully I was able to email the race director and […]

Yeesh. These official photos allow one to relive the agony of defeat… and hold up a mirror (well, binary digits) to show just how not-well I photograph. JULY 30, 2022 JULY 31, 2022   

Having this week once again consumed like an SNL Conehead (that is in mass quantities), I found myself thinking I needed to do something to fight my ballooning beer belly and blubbery rolls that seem to be exponentially developing. Originally I had planned on a return trip to Area 51 for their race next weekend […]

Ya know that scene in Apocalypse Now when Martin Sheen is in a hotel room in Saigon and going crazy and you can kind of FEEL the humidity on the screen? That’s kind of how my night in the Airbnb went. I can’t complaint too much; the host was ever-so-gracious about letting me grab a […]

I suppose months ago this seemed a good idea. Fly up to Seattle, run a couple of downhill marathons I once used for a moonshot sub-3 hour PR. But as with every decision of 2022… of, hell, all of the 2020s… this one was a wrong decision. A late night Southwest flight was scheduled to […]

It was what it was.