I didn’t spend a lot of time in Sundance, Wyoming. I was staying out in Spearfish, SD, because my hotel was $36 a night, a rate so cheap the woman at the front desk when she checked me in did a double take. She said I did better than any employee rate she’d seen in […]
Aw, hell. Hell, hell, hell, hell, hell. Hell. Hell, hell, hell. Hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, HELL, hell, hell. Hell, hell, hell. That’s 22 “hells.” One for each freakin’ loop of the Sundance, WY, course. TWENTY-TWO LOOPS. We ran on the Crook County Fairgrounds which are currently under repair and renovation, partly to support […]
Americana. I’m 20 minutes from Deadwood. I’m 80 minutes from Mount Rushmore. As I said regarding Devils Tower, I was last in these areas 11 years ago with my brother. Part of me thinks I should revisit them but without Steve or anyone else to share the experience with, I’m feeling uninspired. So instead, I’m […]
Because, ya know, it’s Boston… I put my name in. I can’t take for granted that I will be able to BQ in the future… so I decided I should take advantage of having a qualifying time today.
I’m definitely feeling the mileage. During the 40 minute drive out to Rocky Point Recreation Area, my body began to wail. I said nix, nix. It was a 14-looper. Jesse and Daniel said they wanted to keep it 12 but it would have required running on a more trafficked road for a segment and […]
A few months back, I got an email from Atlas Obscura. They’re an aggregator of weird and wonderful sights around the globe (obscure things on an atlas I suppose one might say). In this email they revealed that the Center of the Nation monument in Belle Fourche, SD, was NOT the actual center of the […]
I’m not sure how Mainly Marathons finds their courses. Today there was no street address as the North Shore Marina, Bowman-Haley Lake, Bowman ND, is on an “unnamed road.” So they gave us GPS coordinates: N45.99869, W103.26302 I got there this morning … albeit my google maps app took me through a field with a […]
When I picked up my rental car, My Thrifty Blue Chip membership meant I just picked a car from the Mid-Size row. I don’t generally rent anything bigger than an economy or compact because I like small cars that get decent gas mileage. But the mid-size was the cheapest option in an inexplicably overpriced rental […]
In the beginning, there are two words. “Head” and “winds.” And for the next twelve loops around the drained lake of Baker, Montana’s Triangle Park, those two words would haunt me. I don’t understand the physics but the long and winding loop through the park and out and back corkscrewing through Iron Horse park to […]
Pre-Post: Dang it! I should’ve called that woman behind me at the Hollywood Bowl “Countess Zsa Zsa Gabby Bore!” Too late now; I’ve already “published” that blog post. Sometimes I go back in and edit things after the fact but I always feel a little guilty about doing that… like I’m making Greedo shoot first […]