I’ve still got a little over a week to wrap my head around this but there have been a few changes to my 50K run out in Monument Valley. They updated the course map. It’s now a 55K. And they just released the cutoff time information: Huh. So that’s going to be happening…
It only took a year for the postcard I sent my Mom from Antarctica to get to her. From the postmark, I’d say it was stuffed in the bottom of the outgoing mail slot and finally got deposited in February 2011… so maybe it only took a little over a month to get up from […]
The race director of the Treasure of the Coast Marathon emailed me back and was very apologetic and understanding. He has written a letter to the editor that hasn’t been published yet regarding the press coverage and sent me a preliminary draft to reassure me the race organization takes full responsibility for what happened that […]
Ugh. A 6 AM flight meant a 4 AM wakeup… and I slept terribly. The cross country flight was uneventful but I am a walking zombie after getting off the plane. I promised myself I’d get a run in this afternoon to shake off the cobwebs but my body is pulling an Amy Winehouse and […]
Happy birthday to running guru and Table 44’s own Jean Groce! And thanks to Kerry for inviting mom and me to join in the festivities she amazingly planned for her mom! As she knows my penchant for off-the-beaten-path fun, Kerry regaled me with her ongoing saga of trying to meet a sloth at Denver’s Aquarium. […]
I received this email from the Treasure of the Coast Marathon. I filled out their survey and then sent a personal email to the race officials. A copy appears below: Dear Treasure of the Coast Marathon officials, I completed the anonymous survey regarding this year’s event but have no problem signing my name to my […]
Some photos from the Asheville Marathon held at the Biltmore Estate. I should note that the iPhone’s camera is particularly poor in low light conditions and with fast motion — so the falling snowflakes in the early dawn hours made for quite the digital sampling image challenge. But maybe it adds to the experience that […]
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the last time I ran a race while it was snowing was a year ago exactly. In Antarctica. It is thankfully not quite as windy as it turned out to be at the bottom of the world… but it’s pretty dang cold too. From the relative warmth bErin’s the third floor […]
Every. Freakin’. Time. As it is, no matter how many races I do, I worry I’ll sleep through my alarm in the morning and miss the start. I worry even more when daylight savings “springs” forward. It’s yet another reason I hate daylight savings. So because I wasn’t sure if my phone would reset itself […]
A man riding a dog? A man riding a pig? A man riding a pig-dog? “Guns and Roses” by Stefan “Steebo” Bonitz.