It Ain’t Nyquil I Need…

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I’m trying a scientific approach to the whole sleepless nights thing. As an early Christmas present, my Mom bought me an iHome Zenergy Bedside Sleep Therapy Machine. I’m not sure it’s proving itself empirically but we’ll take a wait and see approach. It does create a nice 1960s lava lamp mood lighting effect in my […]

I’m So Vain… I Know This Post Is About Me

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There’s an internet meme from a while back: Zeddie Little was dubbed by the ‘netizens as “Mr. Ridiculously Photogenic Guy.”  He’s assuredly a guy who takes a good running photo – so good in fact he went viral. But this isn’t a post about that guy. It’s all about me. Because, ya know, I’m a […]

Hot Chocolate 15K Tampa

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A few life lessons from the road, and specifically from the Hot Chocolate 15K in Tampa: There is nothing more terrifying than a clown… except possibly a clown with a megaphone.  Or maybe two clowns with a smartphone. A cardboard “M” will not last in super humid conditions, and probably wouldn’t last even in normal […]

DIY-M

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While looking at these photos, you should have this playing in the background: So I decided that if I can’t beat ’em, if I can’t eat ’em, I might as well make ’em. So here’s my DIY-M costume for the Tampa Hot Chocolate 15K tomorrow: And wouldn’t you know it? After cutting up the mailing […]

On Deadly Ground

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There’s a moment in Steven Seagal’s directorial debut “On Deadly Ground” (1994). Our ex-company man now oil rig firefighter is in a bar and gets confronted by a bullying patron. Seagal proceeds to beat the crap out of “that guy,” one of those classic character actors that we all know but never know his name. […]

Dropping the ball

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I ran in a new pair of shoes. They’re actually a year or so old, just new from my closet but my heel is wonky now. Not sure if the shoes aren’t right for my severe overpronation problem, if they’re just disintegrating from having been stored too long (shoes are like produce — they rot […]

Two Today

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Yesterday was a blur. After a sleepless red-eye and a late night/early morn post of the Honolulu Marathon finish line, I didn’t do much. I ran a recovery run to shake off the stiffness of long haul flights but it was a slow, lumbering ordeal. Today has so far been more of the same. I […]