Chuck Savage is a guy I know. He’s great. I’ve seen him at races and I’ve run a few of the events he directs. In fact, I finished my 50sub4 quest with two of his events. For the last few years he’s put on the Savage Seven race series in Ocala, Florida. It’s a daily […]
I belong to a number of running groups and today somebody posted this discount code for the Philadelphia Marathon. I’m already slated to do a six day Mainly Marathon series that finishes on Saturday the 19th of November. I’ve spent the morning checking flights to Philly to see if there was any way I could […]
Spruce Run Recreation Area in Clinton, NJ, was the site of my final day with Mainly Marathons; as the rest of the Mainly Marathoners headed to New Platz, NY, for Day 5, I was off to Delaware for my Sunday race. But first there was a matter of 14 loops to get through. Norm was […]
Ah, the Daniel Boone Homestead. Although I grew up not too far from here, I can’t recall ever knowing this is where Daniel Boone was born. To be fair, to this day I still sometimes confuse Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. Not sure why that is — I mean, I know Davy killed himself a […]
I was trying to decide how best to go about uploading photos from the Independence Series. I briefly considered just updating the initial draft posts with revisions but felt that betrayed the spirit of the daily notations. The initial drafts reflect the contemporaneous reactions to the events of the day and should remain. Sadly, the […]
Yesterday a running friend posted onto Facebook this intriguing event. I have to admit, I’ve always wanted to go to Cuba. In college, the very last final exam I took for my undergraduate degree was a written exam using the infamous collegiate “blue book” composition pads. It was for a Cuban history class. I was […]