So… 2021, huh? Not exactly how I imagined it going. The vaccine seemed like a sign of good things to come… and then we had an insurrection and a bunch of militant never-vaxxers. Surges and setbacks on the healthcare front meant we never hit the percentages we needed to break the pandemic definitively. And so […]

I’m with my mom and my brother celebrating the holidays. That’s the best present of all! Second best… this ornament from Brent and Tamela.

Well, that was awful. Hot and humid… and not much shade. A two loop course that proved mentally draining… especially since the majority of runners were doing the half and thereby gone from the second loop. A logistical snafu in clearing the course in the morning meant we started 10-15 minutes late… which meant we […]

There is no race day pickup. So they said. As a result, I’m spending the night down in Palm Beach, FL. It’s about a 2.5-3 hour drive from my house so I suppose this is better than getting up at 2 AM and driving down on the day proper. And yet… I suspect there WILL […]

I’ve run in much hotter weather.  I’ve run in much humider (er, more humid) weather.  But for some reason, this race made me feel like my internal organs were roasting from the inside.  It made me feel a smidgen guilty for the turkey we had at Thanksgiving.  Oh, who am I kidding?  Tom T. Turkey […]

Wait. That’s a terrible palindrome. As in it is NOT a palindrome. That’s okay. Because this trip is kinda NOT what I should be doing either. I’m really trying to thread a needle here. It was a six hour drive from my house to the race. I’m staying in a hotel along the beach, off […]

Steve Martin once famously defined “comedy” as “the ability to make people laugh… without making them puke.” As I crossed the finish line this morning of the Space Coast Marathon, I thought maybe the definition of a successful marathon is “the ability to finish the race… without making oneself puke.” I know that’s not exactly […]

This feels incredibly strange to be typing as a new Covid variant has been identified. But I’m supposed to be running another marathon this weekend… and this time in the science-denying state of Florida. The packet pickup wasn’t sufficiently masked for my tastes… but what can one expect here in my home state? Don’t blame […]

Walking from my airbnb to the start line, I came across another runner who was lost. I was wrapped in a metallic yellow space blanket and she asked if I was running the race. She asked if she could follow me to the start line. While walking, she asked what number marathon this was for […]

Hoo-boy. I took a red-eye flight last night that was plagued by delays – maintenance malfunctions on the first leg and then trouble replacing the emergency equipment due to a medical incident on the inbound flight for the second leg. When all was said and done, I think maybe I lost consciousness for about an […]