Clickety-clack. Clickety-clack. Clickety-clickety-clickety-clack. Ya know that feeling in your stomach that comes as the roller coaster gets pulled up the incline, the chain dragging the cars up, up, up to a peak so that gravity can send them careening this way and that? It’s a hollowness and knot in one. That’s how I’m feeling today […]
Earlier this month, this website’s backend server melted in a brush fire. The people are okay but that data center is gone. Feels on brand for 2020/2021. I preface or prologue this post with that context as A LOT of tech is playing up around me – computers, cars, I would say coffee makers for […]
When the alarm went off at 3:15 AM, I couldn’t quite believe I used to do this almost every weekend. It’s been a long time since I ran an in-person event… and if you’re a regular blog follower (and who isn’t?), you’ll know it’s been 551 days since I ran the Los Angeles Marathon to […]
It’s like a year in RENT, plus 186 days. Assuming I actually do lace up and head down to Huntington Beach next Saturday, it’ll be 551 days since my last in person race. That’s seven hundred ninety-three thousand four hundred minutes, give or take. But who’s counting?
I’ve tried writing this post three times now. It always goes wrong. I’ve backspaced it to here and will try again. For the third weekend in a row, I’m bailing on a race. While part of this most recent pull-back is due to the lingering broken toe issues, I also had a bit of a […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if doing the smart thing, or the right thing, or the adult thing was also just sometimes the fun thing, the happy thing, the easy thing to do? For the second time in as many weeks, I’ve had to cancel my race weekend plans. I was supposed to drive up to […]
Thursday night I may have broken my pinky toe. Just bashed it into the side of my dresser. Friday, yesterday, I tried icing it, raising it, staying off it… basically all the components of RICE except compression because even trying to pull on a sock had me yowling in pain. But by nightfall I was […]
Once more they take my money… and I am… happy to part with it? Grumpy? No, wait — Begrudgy! Speaking of which, he should be a dwarf in the Snow White live action reboot. With the lure of maintaining my consecutive “perfect” status in the Dopey Challenge, runDisney cons me out of an obscenely huge […]
Years ago I ran to the Hollywood sign with the A Runner’s Circle Summer Fun Run program. Yesterday, Steve and Alexis took me up there on a path not too far from their house. It clearly has been eighteen plus months since I ran an organized marathon. I have tried to keep running whilst in […]
For the second time this summer, I donated blood.