Memories and dreams are the only approximation of the reality. Photos and words fail to do justice to this place. The spires and rock formations that dot the horizon of Navajo Nation, of Monument Valley, can only be temporarily and l insufficiently captured by artistic efforts. It is a place of seeming contradictions yet harmonious […]
It was a slow hour to go ten miles in this. The muscle memory of driving icy roads in the Northeast carried me through, but it was a mentally and emotionally exhausting ordeal. As a result, this is a shortened post because I just can’t seem to muster the wherewithal for wit, wisdom, or words […]
Last week after reading about the 11-hour cutoff for this weekend’s now 55K UltraMarathon, I ordered a hydration pack from Amazon. But it was $5 cheaper to order it from a third party vendor on their site and NOT go with Amazon Prime’s free two day shipping. They said it was slated for delivery between […]
I just cancelled dinner plans for tonight with two of my favorite people in the world. I may have had something funky at dinner last night at Fox and Hounds (albeit our dream team “Johnny B Dead” came in first at pub trivia!). And I should say it’s not the literal rain falling outside, cascading […]
Latif’s Restaurant was started by a man named Latif. He was Albanian and had been drafted to cook for the 20,000+ workers building ships for WWII. Afterwards, he settled in Turlock, CA, and opened his restaurant. The current family owners bought it from him in 1971; I chatted with the patriarch who was working the […]
Seven seconds. I missed my Boston Qualifying time by seven seconds. Not that hitting the 3:15:00 time would’ve gotten me INTO Boston, but it was my BQ time… and would’ve netted me a “I BQ’d At Modesto” t-shirt. The weather was good, and save for Mount Modesto (the affectionately named bridge with an elevation ascent […]
Modesto smells like dog food. It’s as if the entire city decided as one to open Costco sized bags of dry dog food and then turned on all their box fans pointed toward the center of town. Maybe that’s what happened. As is true of most things, after a period of time it just… is. […]
BB Action Photography sent me a not-great-but-still-tempting St Patrick’s Day promotional discount code. They took my race photos from my Turkey Trot in Florida back in November 2016. While it may have been an excessive waste of money, somehow I couldn’t resist getting some high quality “Turkey” action shots.
Ain’t that a hit in the Blarney Stone? I thought I’d post a photo from my LA Marathon a few years ago that was held on St Patrick’s Day. In scrolling through my digital photo albums, I found out it was more than a few years ago — it was four years ago. March 17, […]
For the first time in a few years, I won’t be running the LA Marathon. I hadn’t planned on being on the West Coast but circumstances and misplaced priorities have brought me back to the Left Coast… rather than repeating a marathon, I’ve decided to head up to Modesto, CA, to run their event. This […]