I recently looked into the Shanghai Marathon. It’s a place I’ve always wanted to go and there are multiple reasons to add it to the list. They haven’t updated their site with details on 2017, but I found their insurance form to be… illuminating? I’m not sure what kind of race they’re putting on but […]
It’s a dreary, overcast day, with a slight chill in the air (or at least a chill for Southern California). The sun hasn’t appeared once; this is how I always think of February. I’m feeling mighty low. Just beaten down by it all. I don’t whether it’s the travel or this stupid sore throat that […]
It’s been a long day without you, my friend And I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again We’ve come a long way from where we began Oh, I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again When I see you again –“See You Again,” Wiz Khalifa Seeing as how […]
It was raining when I started… an omen mayhaps? A long drive can go a lot of different ways. Today’s 8 hour trek out to Sedona went my second least favorite way. It afforded a wooden nickel tour through my memory palace, with my mind shuffling through the libraries of lament, the salons of sorrow, […]
This hotel claims to have WiFi and it does … I can connect to the internal network but can’t seem to get connected to the internet thereafter. And my cell connection is a bit spotty here — uploading photos is proving difficult to say the least. Let me just go run a marathon and then […]
Given that it’s Groundhog Day and therefore I should repeat things, seriously, does anybody have an aspirin? Aside from that, I suppose I should take a page from Edge of Tomorrow, and Live, Run, Repeat. So despite not feeling great, I laced up my shoes and got out the door. Maybe I should have taken […]
There are cinematic tropes — cliches if one isn’t being so highfalutin — that foreshadow ill health tragedy. A lead character rubs his or her head and says, “I just need an aspirin…” and by the end of the picture he or she has a brain tumor. Someone coughs into a handkerchief and there’s a […]
I imagine this is how Daniel LaRusso felt at the Under-18 All-Valley Karate Tournament. My knee and leg feels like it’s been swept all right. The last 24 hours it’s been debilitatingly tender, with flashes of pain based on movement, non-movement, at random times. Unable to sleep, I finally gave up and headed out the […]