Oh. It’s the same course as the Shoreline Marathon. Huh. Well… Shoot. At least I ran it a little faster this time. And I’ll say this — they shot a lot of photos of me along the way… 65 photos to be exact. Also… the tacos at the end were pretty good. They probably […]
Trick – the crappy airline I still have a few million miles to use on had maintenance issues and delayed my arrival in the Land of Cleves last night. Sadly, that meant I didn’t have time to duck into the duct tape museum. Treat – I’ll just have to wait until June to go to […]
Yeah, yeah. Lousy headline, lousy text. I’m tired. I’ve been getting up at 4:30 most days this week trying to get a short-ish run in before work. I’m bleary eyed and… what’s the opposite of bushy tailed? Call it method training for my zombie runner costume. I leave at 5:15 AM tomorrow to head to […]
From the professional race photographer at the Tacoma Mud Mountain Marathon…
Thirteen years ago, my brother and I ran the Long Beach Half Marathon. I was commuting back and forth to England for a project that proved incredibly time consuming… but I still tried to make time for me and for my family. In 2018, I ran the full marathon. Inbetween, I ran a number of […]
Tacom-again? Just another strong start and really rough finish. It’s a long way from one corner of the continetal United States to the other. And this weekend’s trip was made all the longer as we had endured the build up and fallout of Hurricane Ian down in Florida (and beyond). On the plus side, we […]
What the–?! I had pretty much submitted it as a lark, as a “well, it’s nice just to be nominated.” But looks like I’ll be (back) in Boston in April.
Got an email today from the BAA: I thought my qualifying time was 3:15 and below… and that probably is true for actually getting to toe the start line. But according to the link above, for my age group the qualifying time is 3:20. Even that has proven elusive to my old, fat, covid-19 pandemic […]
An hour before my flight to Portland yesterday, as i sat in the LAX remote terminal gate area, I received this email: I debated what to do and finally scrambled to cancel my flights, my rental car and hotel. All told the fees to do so to get e-credit for later use was $40, plus […]
Well. That may have been the worst run I’ve had all year. And that’s saying something given the last few races have left me questioning the very idea of running anymore. I had something of a panic attack around mile 13. I couldn’t catch my breath and felt like my heart was going to beat […]