I’m nervous and anxious and feel like I’ve mucked it all up. Scheduling, locations, planning — it’s a mess. I’m trying to tell myself that the key is that I’ve got people here to cheer me on and instead of stressing about all that’s going wrong (the temperature has dropped precipitously… and precipitation is in […]

While the days, hours, minutes tick away to the 500th marathon, I find myself dealing with any number of unforced errors. Just amateurish mistakes that I should have known better to make. From an early morning flight that requires an even earlier wakeup (why do I never remember such things when I book tickets for […]

The Math Of It AllApril 24, 2004 – April 17, 2023 500 marathons6931 Days18 years, 11 Months, 24 days13,100 miles21,082.406 kilometers

Once more unto the Dodger Stadium, dear friends. Once more… except now they don’t let us wait inside Dodger Stadium anymore. I guess preventing us from sitting in the seats and trying to take selfies with the field in the background was too onerous. Instead, we just hung out at Dodger Stadium’s parking lot. Which […]

It was nice. Some hiccups… where they told us to park wound up being a mile or so from the bib pickup and bus loading at the start and the finish line at the end… and me being too cheap to pay $15 to park at the beach I was another half mile or so […]

Native Pima Indian legends inspired the name for The Superstition Mountains in the area. In the 1840s, the Peralta family of Northern Mexico mined massive amount of gold from the mountains… but on their last expedition to carry gold back to Mexico, the tale is told that they were ambushed by Apaches and all were […]

My stomach was feeling a little rough out there on the course today. Look, it’s my fault. I drank a bunch of wine last night. I admit it, I own it, I take responsibility for what happened. But in true 21st Century entitled whinge fashion, I am also going to blame my hard wired lizard […]

I really have to stop doing these “leave the apartment at midnight, drive five hours, run a marathon, then drive home” adventures.  Is it the mileage on the road or the mileage on the race course that takes the biggest toll?  A question for the ages… or the aged as the case may be. It […]

I’ve run Rock N Roll Marathons before. In fact, way, way back in 2007 I ran ALL of their events and was a ROCK STAR, a bonus distinction for having run the whole thing. Paid extra for my medal and had it framed and on my wall for a long, long while back when I […]

So it happened again.  Another Dopey Challenge in the books.  Day 4 is over and done with.  I was over and done with probably at mile 16 today.  Some minor aches and pains but mostly I was just exhausted.  There wasn’t much oomph left in the ol’ running tank.  I was just tired of running, […]