I don’t know if it’s the years, the mileage, the injuries, the cold, or a combination of all of the above. But I’m hurting. I woke up this morning hurting and then I perhaps foolishly tried to gut out and push through the 13.1 miles today. At some stage I ran into Nick Tarvin and […]

runDisney gave me a special bib for being Perfectly Dopey. They also apparently text messaged *some* of the perfectly Dopey runners thanking them for running the past 5 years. I never got a text but I heard some folks discussing it this morning… and also found out they had digitally printed all of our names […]

Oh, man.  It was cold.  And early.  And windy. The wind is what killed me.  The actual mercury reading was probably a bit higher than yesterday but that wind chill was more than proportionately higher as well. I slept in an extra ten minutes from yesterday.  Wound up in Create 44 this morning.  This is […]

My alarm wen toff at 2:47 AM.  It was too early.  And too cold. But today was the first of four races for the Dopey Challenge.  Today was Pluto’s 5K. runDisney had warned us at the expo that it was a yellow flag weather condition… and they went so far as to put up a […]

This will be my last runDisney event for awhile. They’ve already cancelled all future West Coast events because of a dispute with city residents in Anaheim, although they claim it’s because of construction on Star Wars Land … and Beyond… that would negatively impact on the world class runner experience they want to deliver. This […]

There was a discount. I was weak. And, well, what the hell? Temptation, today thy name is Surf City Marathon.

This is how it starts.

What came before is past. What comes after is the future. What happens now is up to us all, collectively and individually.