So… it looks like the Treasure Coast wasn’t the only one with a misdirected field… Here’s the local news coverage of the Woodlands Marathon out in Texas. As for the Marathon of the Treasure Coast, a quick google search led to the local newspaper revealed comments that I found offensive beyond all comprehension. Here is […]
When I was a child, my parents were based in Stuart, FL. There are photos of that time but I have no memory… to be honsest, my earliest memories are probably somewhere at pre-school at Paoli Methodist. The point is, I can only assume a lot has changed since my last visit to this town […]
I was just reminded that a year ago I was headed to Antarctica. That’s… astonishing. In more ways than one. It was a helluva trip and a helluva a marathon. Here’s an index of the posts from then. Be warned — I never did go back into the text and fix the thumbnails that are […]
Rough. That’s the only way to describe how I’m feeling, how I ran this morning in Albany, GA, and how the day as a whole has gone. In other parts of the world, the Snickers course would be considered pancake flat; as a Central Floridian, I am conditioned to parrot the statement that there were […]
Albany, GA, is the birthplace of Ray Charles. And the town gets extra credit for doing the commemorative plaque at Ray Charles Plaza in Braille. Twenty four hours a day, Ray sings the songs there… and it’s quite a view of the Flint River to boot. The packet pickup was across the street from […]
In December 2016, I ran the 44th Annual Honolulu Marathon. The local newspaper, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, ran an article giving a brief history of the race and it was a smart, charming, informative piece. The writer, Michael Tsai, had recently published a whole book about the race and I thought it would make for an […]
It is a dark time. On top of everything else, I’ve hit a moment where I find myself wondering why I even bother running. With a lingering illness and doctor’s orders to not run for a few days, I find my motivation at a near historic low. It’s funny, this thing that I love to […]
So it may or may not be an pneumonia. Holding out to see if the wheezing and cracking in the lungs gets better with the antibiotics or not and if I don’t see marked improvement in 48 hours I’ve got a scrip for a chest x-ray. But worse than that, my doctor, who is a […]
I am reminded of Margery Williams’s Velveteen Rabbit. That’s the one with the stuffed bunny who dreams of being real but is tossed into the fire when his owner gets super sick, right? They burn all the kids’ stuff because he has the black death or something? Scarlet Fever maybe? I don’t know what I […]
The sun rises outside the window. We are descending into Dallas Fort Worth and thanks to crossing the international date line, we are arriving before we departed. I haven’t slept in days… I couldn’t sleep the last night in Tokyo and I was able to log maybe fifteen minutes on the 11 hour flight to DFW. […]