I posted to Facebook a little story that I’ll snip and paste here for reference sake: I would later comment on the photo discussing the inevitability of dropping out of this weekend’s race in our nation’s capital. In the five hours since I posted that and started writing here, I realized I’ve actually dropped out […]
Little Rock’s marathon is well known for having the BIGGEST medals. Part of it is a response to the city’s name… and part of it is that the Race Directors are bonkers, always going bigger, better, crazier year after year. Geneva Lamm and Gina Marchese Pharis are the two executive directors of the race, a […]
So I needed to book a hotel/airBNB for a race I’m doing in Prague. I wanted to try and find a place near-ish to the start line/finish line locations so I double checked where those were on the website. And of course I needed to see where the expo was located… note the English translation: […]
Back in the dark ages of the late 20th Century, my college had an automated phone system for registration into classes for each semester. Once you got through the jammed phone lines to the CAROLINE system (I went to the University of North Carolina… get it?), you punched in a code number for the class […]
Whoa. There were a lot of people at this thing. I don’t know how many, I just know the pre-race staging area felt like a cattle call. It started though with a relatively empty Will Rogers Coliseum, all signs of the expo removed save for, ya know, the actual signs: But we got packed in […]
This cowpoke felt more like a slowpoke… or at least a “slow a huffalump poke.” The weather forecast called for high winds so I donned a wind breaker. But while it was marginally nippy this morning, there wasn’t much breeze and we were able to chill inside at the expo before lining up. So within […]
Looking back, it was probably inevitable. The Cowtown Marathon offered a challenge of running a shorter distance on Saturday and their marathon on Sunday. I had ticked the box when I registered for the 26.2 mile race that I’d be interested in hearing more about the challenge. Cut to this week when I received a […]
The first time I was in Hong Kong was in 1997, just months before the British handover back to the Chinese. I was on my way to a study abroad semester in Australia and I met up with my brother, who at the same time was studying in Japan. A family friend who originally hailed […]
When I checked my online results from the Hong Kong Marathon, it was clear that something was not right, something was all wrong. My Garmin watch, my body, and my finisher photo all can attest that I ran something just under a 3:27 for the race. And yet the official certificate the MYLAPS/SportHive event timers […]
It’s raining in Hong Kong. Blustery, too. There’s a rolling fog that obscures buildings and the sea and makes for a very grey day. It’s not the best day to sightsee but we’re down to less than 24 hours before a long-haul flight back to the States… so we don our rain coats and try […]