What does six years, twenty pounds around the middle, and many, many marathons do to the body? Empirical evidence (2012 versus 2018): If I were a member of the A-Team, I’d be “B.A.” Baracus because I have such a bad attitude… and had it from the 3:15 am alarm this morning and then throughout the […]
Driving in, I experienced deja vu all over again. I remembered the limited passing lanes of the road into Ennis. I remembered the quaint town itself. And I remembered picking up my packet at this park. And when I saw the race director next to the map of the course, I remembered the run. This […]
There’s a throwaway line in Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990). Bruce Willis, once again scrambling through a somewhat confined space, pursued and pursuing terrorists, mutters to himself, “How can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?!” I always wished he kept that up in the ensuing sequels – “How can the same […]
It’s a sliver of a moon, yes, but even with just a fractional piece of said celestial body, there’s at least still some light visible. That’s what I try and tell myself as the darkness envelops the worldview. There’s a weight to the weariness, a weight on the soul, and an all-too-literal weight on the […]
Sigh. They got me. Again. I had planned on skipping out on runDisney’s Marathon weekend in 2019, figuring I’ve done the Dopey Challenge for 5 years and seen just about all the characters along the way that they intend on putting on the course. And yet, mainly *because* I’ve run the Dopey Challenge every year […]
The other day I was saying to my Mom that my lack of preparation and careful consideration of the rigors of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro didn’t even crack the top five dumbest things I’ve ever done. She asked me what DID make the list and while I wasn’t entirely sure of what were 2-5, I did […]
Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run since at least the first spin cycle. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 400 square feet-an-hour. That gives us a radius of, oh, the entire house. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target […]
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard […]
Ok, so, I didn’t prep for Kilimanjaro and I paid the price. I’m trying to prep at least a little for my Pike’s Peak Marathon in August. To that end, and because I’ve added the 40-something soft-in-the-middle belly, I need some new running pants that fit. Like so many of us, I turned to Amazon. […]
So… I had a bunch of plans for the weekend of July 14th but they all went kabloeey. What do I do when all goes kablooey and I find myself with a hole in my calendar? What’s that you say? “I curl up at home and enjoy a free day?” What are you new here? […]