Double Double, Toil and Trouble?

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Heading to the airport, lugging two just a hair under 50 pound bags, I am off for another double marathon weekend. First up is the Surfside Beach Marathon in Surfside Beach, TX. Then after jetting back to Florida, it’s the Gainesville, FL, Five Points of Life Marathon. Both races are kindly offering race day packet […]

LA Marathon – A Run Down Memory Lane (REMIX)

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NOTE: This is a remix of the February 14, 2016 post.  Everything looked fine when I published it but certain photos were rendered upside down or askew when I viewed the page on iOS devices.  I cannot for the life of me figure out why so I’ve gone back and redone the images and tweaked […]

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

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I recently watched the documentary The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014). I first heard about the Barkley run from friends several years ago. When they first started telling me about it I thought, “Oh, I absolutely have to do this!” But the more they told me and the more I later […]

Post Race Blues

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I’m struggling today. After a pretty good showing at the LA Marathon yesterday (a 3:22:20 chip time), I’m in a funk. Part of it is the natural come-down from the adrenaline and endorphin high of running. And part of it is a series of moments and events that have contributed to a general post-race blues. […]

LA Marathon – A Run Down Memory Lane

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A lot of people have asked me over the years what I think about when I’m running. It depends on the day. Not the answer which is that it depends on the day; I don’t make up different answers for people depending on the person asking. The truth is sometimes I think about a problem […]

Weather Advisories

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The Los Angeles Marathon has issued the following weather advisory for this weekend: Basically, it’s going to be warm to hot for the run. And the warnings are valid — hydration is always a key to any marathon event, regardless of the temperatures. One of the reasons I try and muddle through training runs (the […]

Raw Miles

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Inevitably, the prose of these entries fails to meet the aspirational dreams and fantastical beliefs that I’ve crafted the perfect bon mot/insight/tale/”blog post.” I’ve mentioned before the John Ford film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). It has that famous quote: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The problem with reality is […]