It’s 5:29 AM on Monday, April 4, 2016. Harper and Allison have been such gracious and understanding hosts, as has their charming daughter Hattie and their super-friendly dog Theo. I’ve inconvenienced them for most of the weekend but it’s been such a great opportunity to catch up with some Tar Heel alums right here in […]
Quick placeholder entry — wound up with a 1:42:41. I got lost three times but in the plus side I got to hang out with some great Tar Heels. Thanks to Harper and Allison for hosting me – they’re delightful as always, as is their daughter Hattie.
This is a quick placeholder as I just got into Chapel Hill and the Tar Heels are playing in the Final Four. The run today in Cumberland was lovely and pleasant. I’ll do a proper write-up later but suffice it to say I came in fourth overall and second in my age group.
My 8 hour drive to the Charlotte Pit Stop yesterday turned into a 10.5 hour affair. Construction bottlenecks and rubbernecking motorists for typical fender benders created a perfect storm of slowed traffic. And despite the chipper GoogleMaps voice indicating I was on the fastest route and my route was clear, this was assuredly not the […]
Two thousand miles. That’s what I’m looking at starting today. A road trip to see some classic friends and run some country miles. My alarm went off at 6 AM so I could get a run in before the 8+ hour drive today. I hit snooze and ignored it. I may regret that later. Here’s […]
I’m hoping to run the St. George Marathon in Utah on October 1st. It’s a lottery system and I haven’t been doing so well with lotteries of late. But the course is famous for being a net downhill and a great opportunity to hit your Boston Qualifying time. I’d love to make that happen this […]
This weekend marks a road trip to see some classic friends. Originally it was a double weekend with a marathon in Maryland and a marathon in North Carolina. As I mentioned yesterday, the NC race is now a half marathon… and despite my disappointment at NC swapping out distances (and ongoing confusion over the trouble […]
For the third time in six months, I’ve had an event cancel on me. The first time was the Santa Barbara Marathon; I’m still waiting for my refund on that one with the last email from them saying that although it was cancelled in November 2015, I can expect the refund by June 2016. The […]
Yogurt: Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. [turns it on, firing flames] Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink: Ooooh! Yogurt: [reacts to dinks] The kids love this one. [a dink hands him a doll that looks […]
It’s 26.2 miles to the finish, we’ve got a hastily put together table of Dunkin Donuts, half a pack of goo lies on the ground, it’s dark… and I’m wearing sunglasses. Hit it. *** It’s a little after 5 AM in Ormond Beach, FL. I got here in decent time, leaving my house around 3:30-ish […]