Aw, hell. So the Seven Continents Club got me again. Marathon Tours has finalized plans for their inaugural Madagascar Marathon and like a lemming of that small island off the coast of Africa, I am just following along. In June 2017, I’ll be there. It’s going to cost a small fortune but I’ll be there. […]
In Hawaii, there’s a marketing push built off of the local saying, “Eddie Would Go.” It’s based on the true life hero and surfer legend Eddie Aikau and refers to his going after big waves that other surfers would shy away from. The saying also honors his many life guarding saves and his courage to […]
A Man Gotta Have A Code… Omar Little, The Wire Steve and I have been on a Hanna Brothers Road Trip through the Southwest and amidst the miles of asphalt we’ve talked here and there about thing great and small. One conversational detour involved a man’s code. A mutual friend of ours is a crisis […]
I was, as I’m perhaps overly wont to do, thinking about Britney Spears. This morning was my last few miles running in Santa Fe and I was on what had become my “regular” route. With a fully charged iPod, I was sort of on autopilot. I was enjoying an admittedly slow “victory lap” off the […]
It’s rare indeed that I run a race with headphones; the few times I’ve gone the musical accompaniment route is when I’m doing multiple loops on a course. But training runs are a different story. Runs during the week almost always involve me donning a pair of airline supplied freebie headphones and hitting “shuffle” on […]
Let this be a lesson to me — I skipped the finisher staged photo at the San Francisco Marathon as I was 100% sure I wasn’t going to buy any photo packages. And then today I found out Saucony was sponsoring free downloads of photos, albeit with their logo emblazoned in the corner. Well, more […]
I wasn’t thrilled with yesterday’s post. I think the point I was trying to convey with regards to running is that I sometimes have certain expectations and experiences that should make a run go one way or the other… but very often it can go completely opposite to what I thought was going to be […]
Opting to avoid a red light, I turned left. Despite the seeming vistas of Santa Fe, there are inclines to be sure… and I wound up going up a fairly steady, steep one by turning. On the plus side, I came across a former rail line converted into a bike trail. It was a great […]
The San Francisco Marathon through the years: 8/3/2008: 5:02:20 6/16/2013: 3:28:49 7/31/2016: 3:28:42 I can neither confirm nor deny the whereabouts of my heart, but I know I left seven seconds in San Francisco.
This morning I laced up my shoes and went for a SLOW 6 mile run here in Santa Fe, NM. It’s sometimes nice to do a scouting run when you first arrive in a town for a multi-day stay. You get a little lay of the land, spot a few things to check out or […]