I got about 47 minutes of sleep. It may have been better to just stay up as I’m feeling a little worse post-alarm. In the plus side, it’s only a five minute drive to the start… so only s five minute back after the finish. Whatever that finish works out to be. It’s a loop […]

It’s 1:11 am on September 2, 2027.  My alarm is set for 3:30 so I can go run the first marathon of the inaugural Northwest Series. I’ve never had jet lag insomnia like this before. I’ve done crazed switchback trips, especially when I was working in the UK. But this is something new. This is […]

I shouldn’t have come. As the plane descended into the Seattle Tacoma Airport, the change in air pressure wreaked havoc on my head cold congested sinuses. It felt not like my brain was being drawn and quartered; it felt like it was being drawn and 360ed on multiple axes. As I begin the 4.5 hour […]

I’m sicker than when this week started. But I’m headed up to the Northwest for the latest Mainly Marathons series. Six days, six marathons. Two days in Oregon, two days in Idaho, and two days in Washington. Temperatures are supposedly going to top 100 degrees each day but the race organizers are offering early start […]