Once again I sit in an airport gate lounge, awaiting a flight. And once again, I’m sitting waiting to hear back from a variety of people. It’s as if instead of sending emails I’m stuffing a scrawled message in a bottle and tossing it into the sea, hoping against hope that someone finds it and […]
Sometimes I talk to myself on a run. It’s usually when I’m hitting some mental and emotional wall and I try and rally myself, coaxing just another mile, another step, ANYTHING more. I say to myself, “C’mon, Kevin! Dig deep. You can do this!” Sometimes it works; more often than not I just seem like […]
I have always been astonished at how quickly runDisney events have sold out, despite the ever increasing prices that go up and up and up every year. And yet we may finally have hit a price too far — this year, the Super Heroes Half Marathon in Anaheim is still available… the only event to […]
Yes, yes. I *know*it’s not that kind of cannonball run. I know it’s a marathon set in the Civil War South. Take a look at the logo: But I’m STILL gung-ho about going as… HIM. And this is what the proof of concept looks like with me as… HIM.
Today’s a dark anniversary. It was a terrible day 15 years ago and there are no words that can adequately convey what that day was like or what that day is. The wounds have scabbed over and scars remain; I’m not sure we’ll ever heal. The fallout and the issues from that day continue even […]
The Little Grand Canyon Marathon – Somewhere in Utah — Note: Written on my Southwest Flight back to Orlando, 9/10/16 Huntington, UT, has two parks — a state park and a city park. I and another out-of-towner runner did not know this. We both separately and individually plugged the Huntington Park wording into google maps […]
I’m racing against time today due to tight connections and weird shuttle services. So a longer post will come tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s the short-short version: photos don’t do justice to the majestic canyon rock formations. I was in fourth place until about mile 21 and then overtook third; I passed the second place marathoner […]
What’s that smell? Oh, that’d be me. I was swimming in raw sewage. I love it! — The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear So apparently I not only have to wait for a shuttle bus to fill up after finishing the race tomorrow in order to get back to my car, it’s […]
In many ways, I’ve built my entire exercise regime around Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object in motion tends to stay in motion while an object at rest stays at rest … unless a force acts upon the object. It’s more eloquently stated but that’s the gist. It’s all about inertia. And […]
Yeesh. That was one tough red-eye. I just couldn’t sleep on the plane. Upon arriving in LAX, I cancelled my breakfast plans with one of my best friends as I was flat out exhausted. The rental car place was an exercise in Goldilocksian Murphy’s Law. The first car I got had a check engine light; […]