Savage Seven – Day 6

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It was a cold, cold morning in Ocala, and it got colder with every mile I drove closer to the start line.  The one saving grace was that there was a stillness in the air; had there been a buffeting windchill it would have been really brutal.  As it was, I was chilled throughout the […]

Savage Seven – Day 5

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Runner’s Log: Loopsylvania, Loops 16 – 20. Frank, who celebrated his 800th marathon at Monday’s event, took a moment this morning to acknowledge Lauree (I think that’s how she spells it — there’s two “E”s I know). Lauree/Loree was celebrating her 50th marathon days before her 50th birthday on January 5th. She also was running […]

Savage Seven – Day 4

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It was a rough day in Loopaloosa… er, I mean Ocala.  Here’s a headline that maybe never made it into the pages of Runners World because it’s obvious to most but wasn’t apparently to me: leftover Christmas cookies and a box of white wine do NOT make for a good recovery plan.  Last night’s indulgences […]

Savage Seven – Day 3

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Nine times. That’s how many times I had near misses on my drive back from Ocala today. Nine times. From cars running red lights, to not using turn signals to shift lanes or make turns, to merging with impunity and disregard for lanes or cars, to zipping in and out of lanes within inches of […]

Savage Seven – Day 2

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I’m afraid all we’ve done is awoken a lumbering giant. Not a slumbering one — a lumbering one. Because big freakin’ cement shoes and dis-graceful plodding were the order of the day. Yesterday before leaving I asked what time the start was looking to be. The general advice I got was to assume it was […]

Savage Seven – Day 1

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The alarm went off at 3 AM this morning. Happy boxing day, Kevin. Little did I realize just how many rounds I’d be going with the world. I stopped at a light before getting on the the Florida Turnpike to head for Ocala. The FL Turnpike is billed as Florida’s Less-Stress Way as means of […]

Merry Shoe-mas!

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Merry Shoe-mas from all of us** at RunKevinRun.Com! It’s a (lopsided) shoe tree!  With a Garmin top!   ** “All of us” being, well, “me.”  It’s a small staff here.  A staff of one.  But it doesn’t make the sentiment any less potent.  Season’s Greetings!

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

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I posted this as a profile picture on Facebook to replace the not-entirely-successful Charlie Brown holiday photo. Despite researching the image sizing of the profile photo and exporting it to those specs, Facebook STILL cropped off part of it. Sigh. In any case, whilst others have visions of sugar plums dancing in their head, I’m […]

Lies Do Not Become Us…

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Crumbs. It’s the holidays so there’s a lot of Happy Holiday marketing emails from past races to alumni offering reminders of registration dates. Today, the Myrtle Beach Marathon sent me one touting an impending rate increase and telling runners it will be the 20th anniversary of the running… which I know is a lie. Way […]