Somewhere amidst the rain yesterday during my run, I found my mind drifting as it’s wont to do. I thought about great motivational speeches from film and TV. They are sports movie cliches but the weird thing about cliches is that they usually have a kernel of truth to them, a resonance within us that’s […]
Whenever I’m asked about running in the rain, I try and tell people that once you’re 100% soaked you can’t get any more wet so you might as well keep running. That mantra didn’t help this morning as my alarm went off at 2:30 AM for a 2.5 hour drive up to Jacksonville, FL. I […]
I’ve never been a huge fan of new years. It’s always a bunch of buildup to a fizzle of a thing. There’s a pessimistic and an optimistic way of looking at the new year in running — I suppose it’s a case of looking at it like the the glass is empty or is ready […]