Thirteen years ago, my brother and I ran the Long Beach Half Marathon. I was commuting back and forth to England for a project that proved incredibly time consuming… but I still tried to make time for me and for my family. In 2018, I ran the full marathon. Inbetween, I ran a number of […]
Tacom-again? Just another strong start and really rough finish. It’s a long way from one corner of the continetal United States to the other. And this weekend’s trip was made all the longer as we had endured the build up and fallout of Hurricane Ian down in Florida (and beyond). On the plus side, we […]
What the–?! I had pretty much submitted it as a lark, as a “well, it’s nice just to be nominated.” But looks like I’ll be (back) in Boston in April.
Got an email today from the BAA: I thought my qualifying time was 3:15 and below… and that probably is true for actually getting to toe the start line. But according to the link above, for my age group the qualifying time is 3:20. Even that has proven elusive to my old, fat, covid-19 pandemic […]
An hour before my flight to Portland yesterday, as i sat in the LAX remote terminal gate area, I received this email: I debated what to do and finally scrambled to cancel my flights, my rental car and hotel. All told the fees to do so to get e-credit for later use was $40, plus […]
Well. That may have been the worst run I’ve had all year. And that’s saying something given the last few races have left me questioning the very idea of running anymore. I had something of a panic attack around mile 13. I couldn’t catch my breath and felt like my heart was going to beat […]
No thanks to a chaotically managed series of delays and gate changes courtesy of Southwest Airlines, I finally made it to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. By the time my flight landed, the expo and bib pickup were long since concluded. The marathon is tomorrow morning; thankfully I was able to email the race director and […]
Yeesh. These official photos allow one to relive the agony of defeat… and hold up a mirror (well, binary digits) to show just how not-well I photograph. JULY 30, 2022 JULY 31, 2022
Having this week once again consumed like an SNL Conehead (that is in mass quantities), I found myself thinking I needed to do something to fight my ballooning beer belly and blubbery rolls that seem to be exponentially developing. Originally I had planned on a return trip to Area 51 for their race next weekend […]
Ya know that scene in Apocalypse Now when Martin Sheen is in a hotel room in Saigon and going crazy and you can kind of FEEL the humidity on the screen? That’s kind of how my night in the Airbnb went. I can’t complaint too much; the host was ever-so-gracious about letting me grab a […]