I wouldn’t say hell has frozen over… but for the first time in, if not forever than at least a long time, I don’t have a running event this weekend. I had toyed with the idea of trying to squeeze in a race but I was worried about travel logistics to be home in time […]
Somewhere along the road I met a fellow Kevin runner. Kevin Brosi is the founder and president of the Marathon Globetrotters running club. We’ve chatted here and there, first at a Mainly Marathon series and then, gosh, I’ve lost track of where we last met up. But he asked me why I hadn’t joined the […]
I’m not so good with the making of the words and pronunciation of the sounds and the conveying of the meaning and the whatnot. I was recently reminded of this whilst running the Stockholm Marathon. The headline sponsor was ASICS, a Japanese athletic equipment company that I’m most familiar with due to their running gear. […]
The last of my stash. When I find a shoe that fits, I often buy a couple of extra pairs and leave them in my closet, ready to go when I need a new pair. This was the last of my Asics Gel Evolution 4 bronze shoes. After one run in them, I noticed a […]
We’re into the final countdown of prep for the inaugural Madagascar Marathon. Marathon Tours has sent me the paperwork and runner shirt: A few weeks ago we got our visas sorted as we had been warned the visa on arrival can be a time-consuming series of frustrations. So we’re all set there: So far as I […]
Global Running Day is a marketing ploy, as surely as National Frozen Food Month, National Donut Day, or Valentine’s Day. But it’s a thing and today, June 7th, is that day. There’s a variety of discount codes for races, gear, and merch. And in one I’m-not-under-selling-here brilliant move by apparel maker Brooks, it’s a signing […]
I realized today that my ticketed name was missing an “I” and was listed as “Kevn” [sic]. It’s been a long, awful waiting game trying to get information on what this clerical error, what this SNAFU, was going to cost me. After three hours, four CSRs and various iterations of hold music, I’m still not […]
It’s been a rough trip back to the States. I just found out my screwed up my next itinerary and left an “i” out of my name on the passenger info. So far the bare minimum fees to correct that are $80; priceline is telling me they need to double check as it involves multiple […]
I think it was in a Melbourne University film studies class that I saw Tony Richardson’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). It’s a rebellious coming of age piece that shared some 400 Blows DNA. A cruel reform school was the setting and chronicled one boy’s athletic prowess that garnered him favor with […]
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, the “babel fish” is described thusly: “The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to […]