That’s one dead turkey costume. It being Black Friday, I was on the hunt for a new pair of running shoes on the cheap… and then found my last pair of Brooks Beast in the back of my closet. So new shoes for zero dollars, right? Yeah, yeah… I paid for them BEFORE… but I’m […]
Happy Thanksgiving from this big ol’ turkey in the City Beautiful! Today I went downtown to Lake Eola for the Seniors First Turkey Trot 5K. Last year Mom and I went and I ran in a full turkey costume; not wanting to repeat myself, I donned a cooked turkey outfit I bought off the internet […]
It took me a while to figure out the rather byzantine Disney Photo Pass website. I finally cracked the keystroke/mouse click combination to download all the photos in one go rather than clicking each one individually and downloading one… by one… by one. Hint: It’s NOT this: Here then are a few of the pics […]
I’ve got an email out to Kate over at Mainly Marathons as I think she was overly generous on my 6th Day race in Needles, CA. I suspect there was a transposition error on the timing as my Garmin showed something like a 3:32 finish. This chart however used the figure she has on the […]
Years ago there was a snafu at the Space Coast Marathon and I wasn’t allowed to run because they claimed I hadn’t registered. I drove him in a Groundhog Day angry, foul mood and pulled up an image of the cashed check that showed I had paid 10 months before the event and they hadn’t […]
I posted this last night to Facebook after we landed in Orlando. It sums up the flight: When there’s a screaming kid, a supposed service dog who is amongst the worst behaved canines not named Cujo, and the large man next to you should have had to buy an extra seat given that he’s taking […]
I feel terrible. Kevin’s Law is in full force. I’m normally too cheap to pay for a luggage cart but I had two huge bags to move some stuff and last night (or was it this morning?) I decided as the plane taxied to the gate that I would just suck it up and pay […]
Jack Smith has a park named after him in Needles. I’ll need to google that to see what’s his story. Feels made up. When I went in search of the race location yesterday to scope out where I would be going this morning, my GPS tried to take me on a dirt road parallel to […]
6:21 AM. The wind is howling. This ain’t Oklahoma where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain. This is Bullhead City, AZ. Contrary to all known hopes and forecasts, it’s actually WINDIER and cooler than yesterday. I’ve added a long sleeve shirt lyter to my running gear; I’ll probably get warm as I go loopy […]
A sore throat. An inconsistent wind chill. And a temporal worm hole wherein I’m staying in a pacific time zone and a ten minute drive puts me into mountain time for the race start at Rotary Park in Bullhead City, AZ. I’m discombobulated. It’s either 5:12 am or 6:12 am. The race starts in 48 […]