As I was flipping through tangible manila file folders yesterday, I came across the very first time I did a “double” marathon weekend. It was in December 2011 and I was seeing how I would handle the stress of back-to-back marathons. But I couldn’t make it TOO easy on me so I wound up doing St Jude’s Memphis Marathon on Saturday, hopping a flight to Dallas, and running their White Rock Marathon on Sunday.
In the virtual realm of file folders, I searched for some photos from those events. It was a beautiful day in Memphis … and a cold, rainy day in Texas. I guess that’s what you get for doing December marathons. You never know what the weather holds on any given day… but as I scrolled through the images of that weekend, the cold chill of a Texas winter chilled me even six plus years later. Memory is a powerful thing.
I also used to scan in my medals to archive them for a visual reference. This was long before runkevinrun.com became the viral antithesis of a sensation… an internet ho-hum-numb? Why I thought scanning in medals was a good idea I’m not entirely sure — but, hey, the images are on my hard drive so why not put them up here on the dot com?
In the intervening years I’ve done more than a few double marathon weekends. I’ve done multi-day series. I’ve done multi-national weekends and cross-continent swings to run coast to coast in 28 hours or so. It’s just what I do. So maybe that’s why I used to collect paperwork and throw things into file folders. As I said yesterday, it’s kinda who I am, and maybe what I am is a pack rat. I’m a long way from hoarders albeit I do need to winnow and declutter.
But given this is sorta my “legacy,” well, here are a few last-minute uploads of a long thought lost weekend of running:
