In with the old, out with the new. I ran a 3:13:55. That’d be good enough to qualify for Boston under the old rules in my age group (albeit probably not fast enough to make the cut-off for getting my ticket punched). But it’s 3:56 OVER the BQ time standard for 2019. I ran as […]
“Embrace the suck.” Those were the words of advice Des Linden, 2018 Boston Marathon champion, told us as the rain fell harder and harder on the pavement. We were standing under a park’s pavilion in Biloxi and as a featured guest at the weekend’s events, Des Linden was on hand to inspire us. And honestly, […]
Two things always come to mind when I’m in Mississippi. The first is the song, the one that taught us kids how to spell the River, State, and mudpie. The second is Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues. So as I sit here in Biloxi, that song and Matthew Broderick moaning about it being Tarzan movie hot […]
Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, you’ll have a few laughs… The Palm Beaches Marathon was less chuckle more buckle. Less ha-ha funny, more heat stroke delusional giggle. I knew it was going to be hot and humid when I checked my phone in the AM… but even though I’m a Floridian I […]
After 23 years with the company, today is my mom’s last day working for Disney. It’s a bittersweet moment and I feel guilty that I’m not there when she gets home. I offered to cancel my trip to West Palm Beach for the marathon tomorrow but she insisted I go. Still, I hope she knows […]
Space Coast Marathon… a race where Kevin has gone… before. Several times in fact. In 2011, I ran the 40th Annual Space Coast Marathon (the photo below shows gun time, my chip time was 3:39:18). I loved the event as I thought it impeccably organized and with its space theme, water stations had devised costumes […]
In 2015, I ran a 5K in downtown Orlando wearing a turkey costume. In 2016, I did it again in a cooked turkey costume. Last year I was in Myanmar for Thanksgiving and was running the Bagan Temple Marathon. This year I was too cheap to pay the $25 to get a bib for an […]
If you’ve been reading recently you saw how I had a crush on a cast member of this cruise ship I was on. Over the past few weeks, I found myself wondering the hands-down worst possible thing anyone can wonder: “What’s the worst that can happen?” And yet, even after spinning around three times, spitting, […]
I had signed up for Orlando’s 5K Bubble Run a few months back. They were offering a $20 limited time sale price, a substantial discount over the $50 regular price. They must not have sold well even at that cut-rate price as they have been offering bibs for $10 a pop the last few weeks. […]
If only they put a giant logo on their photos so we knew who provided the “free” images. There’s no such thing as “free” race day photos. I am a digital advertisement for Reebok.