I’ve been trying to clean up a bit of the hoarding life I’ve been leading, not just from the pandemic but from, well, from the day I arrived on the planet, and blinking, stepping into the sun. I occasionally find myself sneezing through the dust, sniffling at the nostalgia and shaking my head at WHY […]
I’m feeling really down lately. “Languishing” is a term being bandied about for the pandemic slog mindset but I think it’s more than that. Still, I’m trying. I’m trying to rally, to exercise, to do things. In the face of overwhelming worries and warning signs, I’m trying to do things I have control over. So […]
With the recent CDC shift to maskless activities for the fully vaccinated here in the US, there is a euphoria of possibilities. As this is a running blog (mostly), I figured I’d mention that a HUGE number of events have gone full tilt toward re-opening registration and I expect the pent up cabin-fever-y runner withdrawals […]
What a frakin’ day. Wait, that’s Battlestar Galactica. What are the curse words in Star Wars? Han tells that doubting Thomas dude on Hoth that if his Tauntaun freezes to death before the first marker then he’ll see him in Hell… though is that a curse or more a religious factoid? Whatever the case, I […]
Ugh. What a LONG weekend it has been… and it’s still not over. This is a quick summation of the timeline of symptoms for the second dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. This was my experience and I type this here in the hopes that if you are experiencing side effects from the dosage you’ll […]
…is that it not only lets me know my mileage, my time, and provides various other bells and whistles… but it also can pinpoint the moment I give up. Here’s the screen grab from my Garmin Vivoactive 3 from this morning’s “run,” an attempt to do the virtual Clearwater Marathon using loops around my neighborhood. […]
I recently stumbled across an AfterEffects template that recreated the vibe of the Marvel Studios opening. (Shout out to Avnish Parker!). But I didn’t love the royalty free open source musical score… so went ahead and bought a fiverr gig for somebody to compose my own “Heroica: A Marvel-ous Theme Song for Run Kevin Run […]
What’s a couple hundred bucks amongst friends, right? I declined the $13 “registration insurance” fee because it felt like an unlikely number to be paying. Superstitions run strong amongst runners… amongst us all. My qualifying time isn’t great and I may not make the cut off. They’ve capped the field at 20,000 in person… and […]
Just submitted a request to make the Clearwater Marathon a virtual run for me. I’m sick of running my neighborhood but better than that getting sick… or getting someone else sick… because I was selfish. Doesn’t make it any easier though.