It’s raining in Los Angeles. And not just raining, but wrath of god, Biblical flood raining. A house near me, a house of stilts, is precariously red tagged, meaning it could slide down the hillside at any time and is no longer fit for human inhabitation. On top of that, because the house has already […]
Given this latest Muscat Marathon posting, it’s safe to say my odds of successfully “winning” the Muscat Marathon just went to zero. My personal record, set at peak conditions on a downhill course, was a 3:05:27. Unless there’s a massive NoroVirus outbreak, or a doping scandal worthy of Russian “intelligence” agencies, or a bunch of […]
The race organizers posted an infographic about this month’s Muscat marathon. Turns out I am RAISING the average age of this thing. That’s not helping my feelings regarding the ever heavier weight of time. By the same token, I’ve got a one in 150 chance of winning this thing… or is it one in 149? […]
There was no race this morning. It felt weird to wake up and NOT have to get over to Walt Disney World (even though technically I had a similar experience on Saturday with the half marathon being cancelled the night before). Nonetheless, I took the off day opportunity to download my official photos from the runDisney events. […]
One of my favorite jokes from my college Rockymentary short has a fake description of Rocky IV being shot in Alaska juxtaposed with a quick insert of Matt Buehrle as Sylvester Stallone intoning, “Oh, man… it was cold.” I kept thinking of that this morning as I waited for the start of the 2017 WDW […]
And the tortoise makes six… While on my personal half marathon run up Apopka-Vineland and back home, I came across five other people doing their own runDisney half. Some like me were rocking the yellow Donald Duck 2017 shirt. Some spotted the yellow and gave me the thumbs up and shouted, “Doing mine too!” “We […]
So, this happened… …which means the half marathon DIDN’T happen. It’s a bummer to be sure but safety has to be the chief concern. I’ve run in all sorts of conditions — rain, sleet, wind, heat, hail, sub-freezing temperatures — and over all kinds of terrain. But while I would always prefer to be running, […]
The Dopey Challenge — Day 2: Minnie Mouse’s 10K In the staging area this morning, all anybody can talk about is what the weather forecast holds for this coming weekend. Projected thunder and lightning on Saturday has whispers of a shortened or cancelled half-marathon. Sunday is said to offer near freezing temperatures, bringing out tales […]
Day One of the Dopey Challenge. I thought I was there too early… turns out I was wrong. That or A LOT of people made the same wrong decision. I arrived at Epcot’s parking lot by 4 AM. And because we didn’t pay enough already to register for this event, it wouldn’t be a runDisney […]