Because, ya know, it’s Boston… I put my name in. I can’t take for granted that I will be able to BQ in the future… so I decided I should take advantage of having a qualifying time today.

I’m definitely feeling the mileage. During the 40 minute drive out to Rocky Point Recreation Area, my body began to wail. I said nix, nix.   It was a 14-looper. Jesse and Daniel said they wanted to keep it 12 but it would have required running on a more trafficked road for a segment and […]

A few months back, I got an email from Atlas Obscura.  They’re an aggregator of weird and wonderful sights around the globe (obscure things on an atlas I suppose one might say).  In this email they revealed that the Center of the Nation monument in Belle Fourche, SD, was NOT the actual center of the […]

I’m not sure how Mainly Marathons finds their courses. Today there was no street address as the North Shore Marina, Bowman-Haley Lake, Bowman ND, is on an “unnamed road.” So they gave us GPS coordinates: N45.99869, W103.26302 I got there this morning … albeit my google maps app took me through a field with a […]

When I picked up my rental car, My Thrifty Blue Chip membership meant I just picked a car from the Mid-Size row.  I don’t generally rent anything bigger than an economy or compact because I like small cars that get decent gas mileage.  But the mid-size was the cheapest option in an inexplicably overpriced rental […]

In the beginning, there are two words. “Head” and “winds.” And for the next twelve loops around the drained lake of Baker, Montana’s Triangle Park, those two words would haunt me. I don’t understand the physics but the long and winding loop through the park and out and back corkscrewing through Iron Horse park to […]

Pre-Post: Dang it!  I should’ve called that woman behind me at the Hollywood Bowl “Countess Zsa Zsa Gabby Bore!”  Too late now; I’ve already “published” that blog post.  Sometimes I go back in and edit things after the fact but I always feel a little guilty about doing that… like I’m making Greedo shoot first […]

I had set my alarm for 5:07 am. I wanted to try and get a run in before heading to the airport. The Radar sound reverberated out of the tiny iPhone speaker and… well, I ignored it. My legs are sore, I’m still stuffy and it was a marginally late night walking back from the […]

I took a breather from marathoning today. Despite the occasional indulgence in pie, I tried really, really hard to control my calories during the Northwest Series in the hopes I might lose a few pounds over the course of the various 26.2 mile+ courses. I failed. But given the current state of affairs globally, with […]

There were far fewer (a lot fewer?… a lot less? Just plain less?) people at today’s final event in the Northwest Series. Maybe it was because some folks opted out due to wildfires, smoke, and travel plans being disrupted due to their prebooked hotels en route back to their homes cancelling due to evacuations. And […]