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<\/a><\/p>\nI’m struggling today to get right with the world. Still fighting the last vestiges of a cold… complicated by the Delta flight apparently shuttling all kinds of sick people hacking, sniffling, sneezing, snoring, so I couldn’t rest. They should’ve done a NyQuil beverage service. Yeesh. I can only imagine what the Zika virus will do to the travelers to Brazil for the Olympics. This is pretty much THE textbook case for how infections spread. Craziness.<\/p>\n
Despite that, I thought I’d post a few photos from this weekend’s criss-cross MidWest road trip. Some things already made it up — like the Fargo wood chipper<\/a> — but a few others were worth uploading here. So without further ado:<\/p>\n Snapshots from the Fargo Marathon (May 21, 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n At the start line inside the FargoDome. I loved the nonplussed photobombing guy over my head.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n I’m never really sure how the day is going to go time wise. I aspire to keep it around 3:30 but one never knows — some days are faster, some days are slower. But it seems like at the moment it’s a good typical goal time for me.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n America.\u00a0 Or as they sing in Team America: World Police — “America.\u00a0 F@ck Yeah!”<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n I’ve always loved old movie theaters… and the Fargo Theater is a great iconic one. I saw Iron Man 2 here when I first ran Fargo in 2010. They changed the marquee for the race to read, “You Are ALL Iron Men Too!”<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n There’s something about places with our names in them, as if had things gone differently perhaps that would be us. I snapped this for my brother Steve because I thought it’d be fun to ponder what roads might have led him to open a liquor store in Fargo, ND.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Snapshots from the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon (May 22, 2016):<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of these I previously posted on Facebook, but they’re worth posting here.<\/p>\n Wandering around Lambeau Field before the start, I tried to snap a few atmosphere shots.\u00a0 So I grabbed a riddle, a Vince Lombardi and “J’Accuse!” <\/em>Lambeau shot, as well as scenes of the fabled stadium itself.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n This is Amy Yanni who graciously agreed to pick up my packet for me as I wasn’t sure I could make it to the Expo in time after Fargo.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n The course itself was fairly standard neighborhood-y and bike trail, albeit not a lot of spectator support.\u00a0 Some, don’t get me wrong, but not a sense of individual neighborhoods coming together to make their mileage extra special — there was never really a sense that I was in a different neighborhood… except at mile 20 or so when we DEFINITELY hit a neighborhood on the other side of the tracks.<\/p>\n But here’s De Pere’s Water Tower… I mean, I’m a bit cynical as I’ve run in Cocoa Beach with their “award-winning” water tower.\u00a0 But still, a nice water tower.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n But the big draw of this race is the final stretch that takes you around Lambeau Field.\u00a0 I was a bit underwhelmed only because all three distances converged — so there were marathoners, half-marathoners, and 10Kers are merging and there were various speeds and abilities jockeying for footing and movement.\u00a0 I don’t know where all these people were on the course… it was a fairly sparse crowd for most of the race.<\/p>\n Still, it WAS awfully cool to be running in the stadium:<\/p>\n The minor incline back up to the finish line and the surprisingly crowded festivities were certainly made bearable due to the HUGE Oktoberfest Brat that was the finisher food.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n And who can complain too much when on the drive back to MSP for a flight I stopped at Marathon City, WI.\u00a0 As I said above, names sometimes have meaning well beyond what their original intended purpose might have been.\u00a0 And so we entertain ourselves as fortune, time, and opportunity allows.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n