Well, this was supposed to be a milestone marathon for me. And it was… but in a different way than I originally had envisioned. I’m not sure I’ve ever been so dehydrated and battered as I was with the 91% humidity and low 80s temperatures of this event. I was exhausted from lack of sleep […]
It’s taken me how many of these races to finally get why they introduce Donald Duck as the conductor of the WDW Half Marathon. It’s because he’s really talented at orchestrating things. Calm, cool under pressure, taking things in stride when they inevitably go wrong. It’s so obvious to me now… Man, oh man… duck, […]
gung-GUNG (or perhaps it should be typed “gun-GAN” in honor of Jar Jar Binks). For me, that two-note sting from The Mandalorian replaces the Law and Order ka-CHUNG for a series’s most recognizable theme. Years ago I ran the Star Wars Half Marathon as Boba Fett. For today’s 10K, I recycled that bounty hunter’s look […]
Pre-race prep: “Day” of race: Sigh. This is madness. And yet… people are already lined up for character meet and greets. Like a lemming, I join the queues. We were supposed to be in the Staging Area by 4:30 am at the latest… that’s so they could move us into the three corrals (A, B, […]
This has all happened before. And will happen again. But right now, it’s happening for 2020. The Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend returns to Orlando, Florida… and I am there. As I post this, my phone tells me I have exactly 9 hours and 58 minutes until my alarm goes off. This so I can […]
A return trip to Jacksonville and a return to Boston seemingly secured. Not a lot of photos as this turned into a business trip — for close to 17 miles I ran with a guy who “wasn’t trained up” but was hoping to keep it at a 7 minute miles pace. He did. I was […]
Sooo… one really needs to be cautious when living life by internet memes. A lot of times, the attribution is way off… and more often than not, the “quote” isn’t really a quote… it’s more of an amorphous etymological amalgamation of fact and fiction that group-think, Mandela/Shazaam effect makes us all THINK the quote if […]
Well, thank the maker that’s over with. Yeesh, how about that 2019, huh? It was pretty much a rerun of 2018 and 2017. Ya know, I was never really a fan of “Make America Great” but I’m thinking I might be all in this year. “Make America Great Again… Because the Last Three Years Have […]
Yeah, yeah. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. What-have-you. So I had it in my head that I was going to run a 25K on December 25th. I woke up this morning and thought, “yeah, yeah… that ain’t gonna happen.” And then I essentially had a breakfast of cookies and thought, “yeah, yeah… that probably should happen… […]
At the risk of contributing to the avalanche of poorly attributed quotes on the internet, permit me to cite unnamed sources for defining insanity as the repetition of the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Was that Einstein? Or Narcotics Anonymous? Wherever it is from, it sometimes (usually? always?) applies […]