Sometimes you run for love. Sometimes you run for the numbers. I needed another race by the end of the year for statistical purposes and since I’m out in California at the moment, I could easily pop down to Long Beach and run one of Charlie Alewine’s nearly-every-weekend events. I’ve done them before and while […]
Some you do for time and some you do for the times. This was a marathon as an excuse to see some friends from the Murphy’s Law plagued Kilimanjaro trip of 2018. Eugene “Gene” “Fritz” “Gene-o” Fritzel recently retired from the Baltimore Police Department after a long and storied career. Like me, he and his […]
I had one of my worst races ever at the Chicago Marathon. I was neck deep into final negotiations on an exit from a job in the UK and I had taken a long weekend to ChiTown to run and hopefully clear my head. And then on top of stress and time zone shifts, I […]
Eliud Kipchoge broke the sub-2 hour barrier in the marathon on a curated course in Vienna, Austria. With 30 top-flight pacers and the use of frickin’ lasers, he ran a 1:59:40, shattering the physical and mental barriers to run 42.195 kilometers in under 2 hours. That’s… amazing. Much like Roger Bannister posting a 4-minute-mile, once […]
Some are better than others… the price was right obviously. And it’s not their fault if I looked gawky and goofy and pudgy in certain shots. And yet… what is Photoshop FOR but to alter the free race day photos to make me look better? I thought about such things the other night when I […]
As is often the case, I try and find cool things to see or do in the places I visit to run a marathon. This AirplaneHome.com Boeing 727-200 Home Conversion certainly fit the bill. I was lucky enough to visit it on short notice, dropping an email to the owner shortly after finishing the Portland […]
A few years back I ran the Portland Marathon instead of going to my high school reunion. For a variety of reasons, I do not regret that decision one bit. Then I got to hang out with Eric and Mary Layton, LA transplants to the Pacific Northwest. I got to hang out with them again […]
I’m not too far from Salem (Oregon), so i find myself wondering if wizards were ever burned st the stake. The historical patriarchal hypocrisy of it all! Anyhoo, if they did ever burn wizards, i could potentially prove mh innocence via the math mistake of yesterday. Turns out I ran one ninite FORTY-SEVEN seconds faster […]
Some things to upload, some things to comment upon, some things to research… but I’m too tired right now to do any of that. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. For now, a note on a BQ … but with insufficient buffer to assure a place. In 2020, one had to run 1 minute 39 seconds […]
A few months ago, I hastily registered for this marathon in the hopes of having an excuse to be in town to meet up with a woman I met from Portland. In the intervening months, we went on a disastrous date that would’ve made a hilariously awkward Hollywood romantic comedy of errors; unfortunately, as this […]