Last night, David Bowie passed away after an 18-month fight with cancer. My brother is a super fan and through hero worship of Steve and general osmosis, I am a fan too. Just before my study abroad trip to Australia in college, I went to Madison Square Garden with Steve to see Bowie’s 50th Birthday […]
They really ought to call this a different dwarf’s challenge — today it was far more appropriate for me to call it the Sleepy Challenge! Man, I was just physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted today. Not sure if it was the toll of four super early starts or something grander but I struggled mightily in […]
Another day, another race, another 3 AM wake-up. This is taking a toll. But at least today there wasn’t rain… just a lot of Hound of the Baskerville style fog. Traversing the moors of Disney World, I ran well and had a lot of character photo ops. Mom had to work today so opted not […]
Always have a rain plan. You never know what race day is going to bring so plan on things going awry or not being ideal conditions. It’s true for runners and it’s true for race directors. It was a rainy, damp but 60-ish degree morning for today’s 10K at Walt Disney World. And yet runDisney […]
A light drizzle and intermittent wind made for a damp and slightly chilly morning, at least for this Floridian blooded transplant. Nothing like last year’s 5K that was about as cold as I’ve been including time spent in New England or colder climates. Something about the wind chill last year froze me to my core […]
Over the years I’ve been to a lot of running expos. More often than not these days, run organizers are requiring runners to attend the expos to pick up their bib number and timing chip. Part of this is a security measure to curtail unsavory nefarious folk from illegally entering the race with running desires […]
June 27, 2015 Facebook post: I just received the verification on my 50sub4 marathon finish and as part of the announcement they ask if there’s anybody you want to thank or acknowledge from along the way. I got the email late at night last week during a bout with insomnia and wrote out the following […]
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 […]