After a tumultuous night, though it was clam outside, I got up 100% convinced I would not get on a plane today to Ohio. And then I saw this: And this: And then I stepped onto my bathroom scale. While I’d like to say the barometric pressure was causing me to be heavier than normal, […]

Nobody knows exactly when or where it will hit but almost everybody agrees *it will hit.* And it will hit *hard.* Central Florida store shelves have been emptied. Gas pumps are dry (my mom was able to wait at a station and fill her tank with four whole cents before the system crashed entirely). Most […]

I was close — seventeen seconds close. But alas, no BQ this year… and thus no Boston 2020.

The numbers say… Hamilton NightGlow Marathon is a go for August 31, 2019.

The Mummy broke me.  Sometimes I should probably dig a little deeper and excavate jist what I’m getting into for a race rather than just signing up because the dates work. Overheard this morning at packet pickup while a few of us were admiring the not-to-scale course map: Woman: Oh, that’s where i had to […]

I landed in Grand Rapids an hour kste, $41 light thanks to a carry-on bag fee, and went to the wrong AirBNB. And then I checked the info for tomorrow’s race.  The all-caps freaks me out more than anything else…

As part of the Outback Marathon swag, TravellingFit includes official marathon photos gratis… or maybe they charge for the photos and everything else is free. Whatever the case, marthon-photos.com just sent me the link to my pics.  They aren’t terrific… more an indictment of my graceless flamingo-ish gait and pudgy nature and less a commentary […]

A recovery hike in the Valley of the Winds at Kata Tjuta:   *** A celebration dinner at sunset and into the night in the bush.     Not pictured: The shooting star just as the astronomy talk commenced. *** A final raised glass to the land down under.

Tonight is the big outdoor celebration dinner for TravellingFit.  I did make it to that in 2015 and it was delightful… it will be all the better though to be there celebrating finishing the marathon rather than celebrating arriving in Ayers Rock. Meantime though, here’s a truncated but still super long video of the opening […]