The journey of 4,487 miles (as the crow flies) begins with mimosas with Mom in the Orlando Admirals Club…

An open letter to Mr. Patrick Cerreta, President, Logo Sportswear, Inc. Dear Mr. Carreta, I am writing to you to inform you of the terrible experience I’ve had with your company.  I don’t order a lot of things from you but I have now and again placed orders for personalized, custom apparel.  On three occasions, […]

It’s a strange thing to wake up and NOT head out to some state park to run many, many loops. It’s a strange thing to wake up and NOT stuff my face with peanut butter cookies as a caloric “base” for a marathon run. Though to be fair, I did still wake up and stuff my […]

There’s too much awful in the world. From natural disasters ranging from a series of hurricanes and earthquakes, wildfires and droughts, it’s too much. And the humankind devastation of the natural world and social injustices run amuck are all too much. There’s just so much wrong and such a depressingly oppressive sense of doom and […]

I don’t know if it’s the years or the mileage. But I do know my Garmin’s GPS was broken by the Center of the Nation. I thought something might’ve been screwy yesterday but I figured the course was atypically short. Today, I thought the course might be long… and then inexplicably my watch seemed to […]

On the long drive from Chadron, NE, to Sterling, CO, I went straight through Alliance, NE.  Now, I’ve been to Alliance before… but unlike a few other spots along the way of this Center of the Nation tour, I was there previously on my own.  So I didn’t mean doing a revisit Hanna Solo. Alliance […]

It’s a skull and (achy, cross at me) bones day!  Today marked my 50th race with Mainly Marathons, meaning I earned a commemorative calavera skull.  But more on that in a moment.     The 14-loop course at Chadron State Park was quintessential Mainly Marathons.  It had pretty much every conceivable terrain in is layout […]

I didn’t spend a lot of time in Sundance, Wyoming.  I was staying out in Spearfish, SD, because my hotel was $36 a night, a rate so cheap the woman at the front desk when she checked me in did a double take.  She said I did better than any employee rate she’d seen in […]

Aw, hell. Hell, hell, hell, hell, hell. Hell. Hell, hell, hell. Hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, HELL, hell, hell. Hell, hell, hell. That’s 22 “hells.” One for each freakin’ loop of the Sundance, WY, course. TWENTY-TWO LOOPS. We ran on the Crook County Fairgrounds which are currently under repair and renovation, partly to support […]

Americana. I’m 20 minutes from Deadwood. I’m 80 minutes from Mount Rushmore. As I said regarding Devils Tower, I was last in these areas 11 years ago with my brother. Part of me thinks I should revisit them but without Steve or anyone else to share the experience with, I’m feeling uninspired. So instead, I’m […]