The Road To Bali – The Postcard

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In prior years for prior events, I’ve sent out postcards each time I embarked on one of my “Road To….” Marathons. It’s been awhile since I’ve done one – December 2015 had me run the Road To Singapore. But this August, I’ll hit the Road To Bali, which was the only Road movie to be […]

Go / No-Go for May 16, 2017?

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I still can’t. I just… can’t. My body cries out in exhaustion. My attention span is shorter than a 70-year-old man who occasionally resides in a big taupe house. These are dark times. I foolishly stepped on the bathroom scale this morning. It audibly sighed as the needle spun wildly past the marker I had […]

Mission Setbacks and The Overwhelming Power of “Can’t”

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I can’t. That’s the story of today. I can’t. Everything is going wrong. This weekend saw a slower race time. The bathroom scale shows a higher number (and believe me it ain’t because muscle weighs more than fat… it’s because more fat weighs more than less fat). And my recovery run yesterday was a sobering […]

Holy Ship-Rock! Another early start…

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Ugh. I’m up, I’m up. Step two: drive to the parking area to catch the shuttle bus that’ll take me 26.2 miles from my car. Step three: run 26.2 miles. Step four: drive twelve hours… but gain an hour due to crossing time zones. Gonna be a long day. I’ll tell you all about it […]

13 Hours – A Non-Michael Bay Short

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Thirteen hours later, I’m at my murder hotel for the evening. It’s a spotty internet connection… I wonder if that’s what caused such wifi delights to have violent ends. For the record, I don’t know if there was a murder in this hotel or not. But I don’t NOT know either. This is how things […]