Sigh. What am I doing? Why am I even CONSIDERING this?! I received an email from a race company I ran with in 2015. They put on a series of 80s themed events and I happened to run with them in honor of Back to the Future’s 30th Anniversary… and the fact that Marty and […]

I do not mean to take delight in MarathonTours cancelling this year’s Madagascar Marathon with limited notice to its participants. I do hope it’s bevause they realized they should do better than they did with the inaugural event last year which left me disappointed, underwhelmed, and unlikely to use their company in the future. I DO […]

Here’s a shot from 10 years ago when I went to run the Tokyo Marathon the first time. I was in Tokyo again last year with Mom as part of a TravellingFit adventure. But here’s a flashback to Tokyo in 2008:

In late 2009 I swapped over from a Windows laptop to an Apple MacBook. In migrating my files from one operating system to another, I made a grave error and lost a number of photo images, documents, emails, etc.  That data then, for all intents and purposes, has been erased from existence… and maybe never […]

I woke up with a headache.  My iphone’s alarm, the default radar tone, pinged repeatedly at 3:30 AM and I fumbled with it in the dark.  I cleared it and saw a notification banner from AirBNB.  Apparently my host for my Boston Marathon accommodations cancelled in the dead of night. I wanted to believe his […]

For years now, possibly as many as 13 years, I’ve wanted to do the original Krispy Kreme Challenge in my adopted state of North Carolina (my alma mater is UNC Chapel Hill — go heels!). Yes, yes.  It’s originated and sponsored and run by cross town rival NC State, but amongst the charitable beneficiaries is […]

For the last few years, as part of mom and my Hanna Family Christmas, we’ve got that Oahu shores and done the Merrie Mile and Honolulu Marathon.  They just opened up registration for this year’s events and are once again they are offering an enticingly low fee for early bird registrants. As much fun as […]

Last year I ran the Kyoto Marathon. I’m still getting updates from their Facebook page and email list serve as if I were running again this year. I found this post particularly… unsettling? Amusing? Helpful? All of the above. I think it’s the invocation of “hypothermia and other reasons” for why people don’t make it […]