It hurt. A lot. Whether it was the last vestiges of the sniffles I picked up at sea, the lingering peg leg styled gait acquired by running in the same looping fashion for hundreds of rounds of Deck 4 on the ship, or just age and mileages, I struggled through the race. My tendons were […]
My sea legs are showing. I slept fitfully last night, my body unaccustomed to a non-water based bed. I wonder if I had a water bed if the transition from ship to shore or shore to ship would be easier. This morning I felt my shower swaying … only to realize it was stable and […]
In 2017, days before our departure through the Panama Canal, I fell on my ass. I was out for a run and slipped on a freshly powerwashed section of Hollywood Boulevard. I bruised my tail bone and yet still decided to run the Ventura Marathon that weekend as I had already paid for it and […]
Years ago my brother and I ran the Long Beach half marathon. I can’t recall why we did the half, whether it was before I felt like I could run a bunch of marathons a year or if we were using it as a training run. Part of me feels like I had to fly […]
A few months back, a friend of mine said she couldn’t read my blog anymore because she found it too depressing. I didn’t know what to say and because I didn’t want to deal with it, I shrugged it off as an anomaly. But in the past few weeks some other readers have told me […]
I had a bad feeling about this race. I don’t know if it came about in the 45-minute walk from my AirBNB to the start line. It was a brisk morning and I was bundled up in an Australia sweatshirt that I was going to throw into my bag and check at the finish. Sure, […]
I had… a bad day. But I finished… eventually. My feet hurt, I had a panic attack, and I’m proof positive that no matter how many marathons you run, they are never easy. Some are easier than others but they’re all 26.2 miles/42.195 kilometers. And that takes a toll. I’m rushing to catch my night […]
Another day, another mistake. I should have sucked it up and gone to Egeskov Castle. Instead I opted for the Colonial Williamsburg-ish Funen Village (Den Fynske Landsby). It’s an open-air, “living” museum recreating 19th Century Odense. Here’s the thing – I’m not really a fan of Colonial Williamsburg. And so this village thing really wasn’t […]
Sir Isaac Newton never published a theory of Kevin S. Hanna in motion. But if he did, his first law would be that for every right decision Kevin makes, there will be an infinite, and ever increasingly worse in outcomes, series of bad decisions. Today I’m having a day that personifies the second half of […]
I had previously decided not to submit my BQ time for the Boston Marathon… arrogantly believing that I even stood a chance to get in. The Boston Athletic Association just released the details of the submissions and they are… humbling to say the least. You needed to run 4 minutes and 58 seconds FASTER than […]