Two thousand miles. That’s what I’m looking at starting today. A road trip to see some classic friends and run some country miles. My alarm went off at 6 AM so I could get a run in before the 8+ hour drive today. I hit snooze and ignored it. I may regret that later. Here’s […]
I’m hoping to run the St. George Marathon in Utah on October 1st. It’s a lottery system and I haven’t been doing so well with lotteries of late. But the course is famous for being a net downhill and a great opportunity to hit your Boston Qualifying time. I’d love to make that happen this […]
This weekend marks a road trip to see some classic friends. Originally it was a double weekend with a marathon in Maryland and a marathon in North Carolina. As I mentioned yesterday, the NC race is now a half marathon… and despite my disappointment at NC swapping out distances (and ongoing confusion over the trouble […]
For the third time in six months, I’ve had an event cancel on me. The first time was the Santa Barbara Marathon; I’m still waiting for my refund on that one with the last email from them saying that although it was cancelled in November 2015, I can expect the refund by June 2016. The […]
Yogurt: Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. [turns it on, firing flames] Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink: Ooooh! Yogurt: [reacts to dinks] The kids love this one. [a dink hands him a doll that looks […]
It’s 26.2 miles to the finish, we’ve got a hastily put together table of Dunkin Donuts, half a pack of goo lies on the ground, it’s dark… and I’m wearing sunglasses. Hit it. *** It’s a little after 5 AM in Ormond Beach, FL. I got here in decent time, leaving my house around 3:30-ish […]
I’ve had a lot of adventures running, and many more to come. Close to home, far flung, big cities, little towns, they run the gamut. But the one adventure I wanted to mention is one I just nailed down yesterday, In the first week of May I’m doing a couple of races with Mainly Marathons […]
Yesterday I received an unexpected surprise. I suppose surprises are by definition unexpected, but this was a doubly unexpected surprise. I opened this package and what should I discover but a SportHooks Seven Continents Club medal hanger! Two of my Table44 shipmates, Kerry and Jean Groce, sent it to me to commemorate my Seven Continents […]
As you’ll know if you’ve read the recent posts, I just completed the Antarctica Marathon, and thus have now run a marathon on all seven continents. It was a project years in the making, costly from financial, physical and emotional standpoints. But it was a thing. It was a very personal thing for me but […]
Melancholy and contemplative. That’s the order of the day. There was another terrorism attack today, this time in Belgium. It was ostensibly a response to the successful capture of a ringleader of the November 2015 Paris attacks. Scores of innocent people, just going about their daily lives, were injured or killed by evil. The cascading […]