There’s a TV advert from a few years back… maybe MANY years back now. It featured a guy sitting on a curb outside a mini-mart slurping a popsicle. His wife pulls up in her car and says, “I thought you were going for a run.” “I got hot,” the man says. She looks at him […]
Twenty-six point two miles and two slices of pizza down… Seven hundred and twenty-two miles to go.
Ugh. I’m up, I’m up. Step two: drive to the parking area to catch the shuttle bus that’ll take me 26.2 miles from my car. Step three: run 26.2 miles. Step four: drive twelve hours… but gain an hour due to crossing time zones. Gonna be a long day. I’ll tell you all about it […]
Thirteen hours later, I’m at my murder hotel for the evening. It’s a spotty internet connection… I wonder if that’s what caused such wifi delights to have violent ends. For the record, I don’t know if there was a murder in this hotel or not. But I don’t NOT know either. This is how things […]
It seemed like a better idea to drive… It seemed like a better idea…. It SEEMED like a…
Now I Have To Tell You… It’s An Incredibly Complex Issue. Nobody knew how complicated the sub-3 hour moonshot would be. There were no dogs today… but I was well off a sub-3 hour pace. Doing the math, I need to run 9 miles per hour, or 6:40 minute miles for the 26.2 mile distance. […]
What’s the old chestnut? If it was the other way round THEN it’d be news? HEADLINE: Dogs Bite Man. And yeah, it was two dogs. And I’m the man. And I guess that’s not all that uncommon – as I said above, had I bitten two dogs, well, maybe that’s worth reporting. But what about […]
There’s been a lot of buzz recently both in runner’s circles and the mainstream press about Nike’s sponsored “Moon Shot.” Bringing to bear science, technology, and talent, Nike and three runners sought to break the sub-2 hour marathon barrier. Working for over a year on nutrition, shoes, course conditions, pacing, the team announced the big […]
I need to be careful not to write when I’m angry, upset, or tired or a combination thereof. Last night while I was trapped in an airport layover, I dashed off the following to the Pittsburgh Marathon organizers and submitted via their “Contact Us” website form. I was upset (still am) about the 90 minute […]
After numerous false starts on the organizers part, they finally posted the link to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Marathon photos from the 2017 race.