The Missing Pieces – October 26, 2017

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Still not sure if this will get lost in the web hosting company changeover. Hence – the Missing Pieces. October 26, 2017: Yesterday I received this email from the Kathmandu Urban Marathon: I’m trying to use it as motivation for recovery and rebuilding my training. It’s amazing how quickly I feel like any endurance and […]

The Missing Pieces – October 25, 2017

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October 25, 2017 – Holding Pattern While I’m laid up and feeling awful, I thought I might as well try and finalize the migration of runkevinrun.com to a new web hosting service.  They’ve apparently transferred 40 gigs of data from the old company to the new and I’ve just updated all the DNS Name Servers […]

Wallow, Kevin. Wallow.

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It’s impossible to define a person by one single line, yet we often do just that.  Whether it’s the Bridget Jones style of introducing someone at a party with thoughtful details, or the personality types in work-place communication seminars, there are “quintessence” identifiers we use as shorthand for ourselves and others. That’s Alex – he […]

Clubber Lang was right.

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Prediction? Pain. The Ventura Marathon? It’s a top tier dumb thing. So much pain. Stiff and sore and it hurts to move, to not move, to shift, to amble. I haven’t tried sashaying yet but I can only imagine that would end poorly. I’m going to forgo running for at least the next five days. […]

The Ventura Marathon

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There remains little doubt that the dumbest fuckin’ thing I’ve ever done was a polar plunge in Antarctica. But there also remains little doubt that age is never an assurance of wisdom.  There have been any number of actions, decisions, moments, things that I’ve done, made, initiated or participated in of late that frankly have […]

If I Were A Smart Man…

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If I were a smart man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I’d biddy biddy bum. If I were a smart man, I wouldn’t run this marathon tomorrow. But I’m not a smart man.

Popeye, Don’t Be Right.

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Besides teaching us that spinach is a performance enhancement drug (PED), Popeye also spouted words of wisdom inbetween thrashings and toots of his pipe. This includes the well-sung “Leave Well Enough Alone…” (even if apparently it’s sung by a parrot… I could’ve sworn it was Popeye himself who sung it and punctuated the beats with […]