Running past the monuments to our nation’s history is emotional enough. But during the Marine Corps Marathon, there is a blue mile at around mile ten. It serves as a tribute to fallen soldiers, featuring photo placards spaced sadly all too closely together and yet only a infinitesimal fraction of the names and images of […]
Few things are as humbling as a Marine thanking me for running. To the brave men and women and their families who have sacrificed and continued to sacrifice so much for us all, thank you. Tomorrow I will post more photos and a few more thoughts on the moving (both physically and emotionally) Marine Corps […]
Unlike my recent Venice trip, I have been here before. But much like that trip to Italy, I decided to tour D.C. by wandering around. I hadn’t prebooked tours so getting into the Capitol or White House wasn’t really in the offing. But I did amble past them. I might even have sashayed once or […]
The Marine Corps Marathon expo was a bit of a madhouse this afternoon — I never felt like I understood the flow of the process but I don’t think that’s any fault of the organizers. It was more that I was a bit jet lagged spaced from my 3:15 am pickup by PrimeTime Shuttle to […]
It’s an overcast day in the City of Angels and I struggled with getting out the door. Part of it was I needed to login at 6:30 AM this morning to check in for my Southwest flight tomorrow. I’m too cheap to pay the early-bird fee and I’m only just now about to hit A-List […]
There were 2500+ photos uploaded to the SpaceRock Trail event website. I think I was in about six of them. Here’s the best of the bunch, showing me finishing the race, complete with bloodied knee and bruised ego… but finishing.
I tried writing this entry four or five times on my long haul flight back from Venice. Each draft was successively worse and ultimately I’ve decided to do a short-short version here: The flight from Venice to Philadelphia was a 9.5 hour ordeal, one of those trips that just doesn’t seem to end. It wasn’t […]
October 23, 2016 – The Venice Marathon (AKA The 300th) Sr. CCC, Signore Sentanta. Signore 300. Whatever way I write it, it means I hit my “0.1 Bernie Mac” status today. Six thousand athletes they said at the starting line. It’s an incredibly well organized marathon, inclusive with various languages going on to ensure people […]
October 22, 2016 – Untitled This morning the complimentary breakfast buffet was once again picked over by the time I got there. There weren’t any forks so I went with. Croissant I could at with my hands and a bowl of cereal since I did find two lonely clean spoons. Unfortunately, after scooping some cereal […]