A bit of backstory, from the race website: The course? Twenty loops around a lake… and each one longer than the last. I have to assume the distance remained constant so the only conclusion is that I got slower and slower as the loops dragged on. I used to arrogantly think I was “pretty ok” […]
So, because a snafu made it impossible for me to get my trucker hat that was part of the race swag, I’m taking screenshots of the official race photos page as my souvenir gift… a bootleggin’ booty. They’re super low resolution, especially as these were the only ones without the watermark, but if you’re interested, […]
George W. Bush famously described Donald Trump’s inaugural address as “some pretty weird shit.” I kept thinking about that assessment as I ran the Bend Marathon up here in Oregon. After some flight delays, I finally got into town around 8 PM. Whilst driving to my hotel, I passed something straight out of 1995 – […]
Walking Through The Finish
If today proved anything, it’s that my Wild West gunfighter name would have been “Hobble-Along Hanna.” Three fellow runners asked how I was feeling given that I was limping. One guy even said to me, “Being 50 sucks, doesn’t it?” Which means I look way worse than I feared. I guess in some ways I […]
Bumper sticker philosophy says that in the end we really only regret the things we DIDN’T do and not the things we DID. But what if “doing nothing” WAS what i should’ve done and my regret winds up being that I didn’t NOT do something? Scribblings from a conflicted soul because the soles of my […]
Fifteen years ago, I ran my first marathon at the inaugural Salt Lake City Marathon. Fifteen years late, I thought it would be momentous to come back and run it again for its 15th anniversary… forgetting the difference between intervals and fence posts. The 15th anniversary was actually last year… and so I’m here somewhat […]
Despite my feet crying out in pain on the balls of my feet, and feeling bloated and slothful as I haven’t run in weeks, runDisney sent me this… and so the streak will (hopefully) continue in January 2020.
I’ve broken down… in more ways than one. Unable to self-treat with much success, I’ve gone and gotten a Physical Therapist/Sports Medicine/Chiropractor person. It took some time finding somebody who had an immediate opening… and it’s far from cheap. But at least the Yelp reviews are mostly positive… and it’s not like those can be […]
It still hurts. All of it hurts. My back. My side. My leg. My soul. I’ve mentioned this in prior posts, but yesterday once again I repeatedly found myself needing something across the room and it was too big of a struggle, too painful, to get up and take three or four strides to get […]