I spent the morning on a recovery run, a last bit of mileage on Oahu’s shores. Running in the moonlight along the surf isn’t a bad way to start a trip back home… but it does offer a definite portrait of paradise lost to reality. This crappy iPhone shot is barely able to convey a bit of the magic […]
2:30 am. Good Gravy, Marie! It’s astonishingly early. But with a 5 AM start time a few miles away at Ala Moana, I thought I needed the extra time to get down there and navigate my way through the masses to get closer to my targeted pace time. The Honolulu Marathon prides itself on being […]
Karen Hanna – Finisher! Mom did it! The Inaugural Kalakaua Merrie Mile is in the books and written on those pages is the name Karen Hanna! I’m proud of mom for laci g up her sneakers, donning her bib, and getting out there! Way to go Mom! What follows is my attempt to photo document […]
Super Duper Uber, Yabba Dabba Doo-ber, Double Platinum slow today during my morning wake up run. Just sluggish and lethargic and meh. A constant light spittle, never quite rain and never quite clear, accompanied me. Perhaps that weather contributes to my ongoing back pain. I know it’s non-mosh dive related but given the year milestone […]
12/8/16 – No One Expects The Merrie Exposition Punchbowl. That’s the road to turn on to get to the City Holiday Lights of Honolulu and the King Kamehameha statue outside City Hall. And unlike the night time viewing and the mad crash of folks post sunset, at 5 am I had my own private tour […]
In order to avoid what is a crowded affair at Pearl Harbor today, the day marking 75 years since the Japanese attack on Hawaii, we opted to go the opposite direction on sightseeing. We’ve got tickets to go to the memorial on Friday. I headed out for a run this morning at 4 am. Still failed […]
A few years back, I took my then girlfriend on our first ever MarathonTours adventure to the Rio Marathon and Half Marathon. There I met Richard St. John. He seemed obsessed with humidity levels of the race and its impact on potential for the race itself and I snarkily made snide comments about it to […]
12/5/16 – Psychological Plane-Fare I’m currently sitting in the Phoenix airport, halfway through back to back five hour leg flights. I’ve flown longer and farther but today is really taking a toll. These aren’t quite long enough flights for me to try for solid shuteye (if such a thing exists on a plane). But they […]
So… I’m back from Cleveland. And I’m packing up for my next trip that starts tomorrow. In the meantime, I thought I’d do a backlog of a few items. My neck is better from the stage dive, faux-mosh pit adventure at the Space Coast Marathon but my back is killing me from where I landed […]
‘Twas the day of the Christmas Story Run, And all through the land of Cleves, The creatures were stirring… Especially the six foot (give or take) bunny suited Kevin. Sometimes it’s best to let the photos tell the story. This is one such occasion. Oh! And huge shout outs and kudos to my Mom the […]