May the odds ever be in my favor. This morning I woke up, still alive after a weird night in a crappy potentially crack den hotel. And I checked my phone for the forecast. Rain seemed highly likely in the back half of the marathon. I’ve often said to friends about training runs on the […]
Having completed a double marathon, I needed to decide on a recovery plan. I opted for the “hair of the dog” method and laced up my shoes this morning for a recovery run. I was slow and somewhere in the back half of my usual route I felt mildly awful. Lots of walking in the […]
It was much colder this morning than my phone originally told me. A windy, chilly 36 degrees at the start. We all were able to huddle in the Union University gymnasium before the race which was a nice bonus but the start line was up a hill closer to the road. Oddly, I went looking […]
It’s a double marathon weekend – the Andrew Jackson Marathon on Saturday and the St Louis Marathon on Sunday. Today’s early morning flight to STL had been designed to maximize sightseeing – I’d start in Missouri, drive out to Jackson, TN, for tomorrow’s race then come back to run and fly out on Sunday. But […]
0718 hours. And so here I stand. Stretching, pacing, jibber-jabbering and just generally killing time before the starting gun/shout/air horn/lighting of a cigarette. (That last one is only for the Barkley Marathons, a race I’m 99.99998% sure I will never do.) Today isn’t a countdown to the start of a marathon though. No, today’s 24 […]
Ugh. Some time yesterday I felt my throat closing in on me and I assumed it was just allergies. There’s a fine yellow dusting of pollen covering the area, from automobiles to zebra patterned porch chair cushions. And yet last night, the throat got scratchier and descended through the circles of hell to reach a […]
I’ve made a horrible mistake. That’s what I realized as I followed a woman running who had turned left at the T-intersection. I don’t think this when I make the turn, though. No, no. It’s the second loop of the 2-loop Not-So-Normal Half Marathon in Carrboro, NC. We’re running through neighborhoods in the small town […]
It’s 5:29 AM on Monday, April 4, 2016. Harper and Allison have been such gracious and understanding hosts, as has their charming daughter Hattie and their super-friendly dog Theo. I’ve inconvenienced them for most of the weekend but it’s been such a great opportunity to catch up with some Tar Heel alums right here in […]
Quick placeholder entry — wound up with a 1:42:41. I got lost three times but in the plus side I got to hang out with some great Tar Heels. Thanks to Harper and Allison for hosting me – they’re delightful as always, as is their daughter Hattie.
This is a quick placeholder as I just got into Chapel Hill and the Tar Heels are playing in the Final Four. The run today in Cumberland was lovely and pleasant. I’ll do a proper write-up later but suffice it to say I came in fourth overall and second in my age group.