If I were a smart man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I’d biddy biddy bum. If I were a smart man, I wouldn’t run this marathon tomorrow. But I’m not a smart man.

It was drizzling this morning. I should’ve known better. The sidewalks were s big slippery, that old age of wet leaves bring like I’ve applying to the grit, grime, and muck of city sidewalks mixes with a modicum of water. Three miles into my run run, my right footfall slipped out from under me. Then […]

Besides teaching us that spinach is a performance enhancement drug (PED), Popeye also spouted words of wisdom inbetween thrashings and toots of his pipe. This includes the well-sung “Leave Well Enough Alone…” (even if apparently it’s sung by a parrot… I could’ve sworn it was Popeye himself who sung it and punctuated the beats with […]

A quick maintenance/navigational note – I just finished updating the index page for my 2017 European Tour. You can get to it by clicking here. Or as always you can scroll through the “Tours” menu option.  There you will also find several of my big-ticket (mis)adventures in running.

Today was the first day you could register for the Berlin Marathon lottery. I’ve never tried registering before as it always fell on dates I had things already planned. But for 2018 they moved it forward (or is is back) a weekend to the middle of September and I think I can make that work. […]

I’m sitting in seat 21K, a window on the three person starboard side of a British Airways Airbus A380 en route to Los Angeles.  I don’t normally request windows on long hauls as I like to be able to get up and stretch my legs yet I double checked my Orbitz purchased ticket and sure […]

The more I thought about that other supervisor last night, the one who said due to health and safety it was accurate that I would die if I walked the terminal, the more bullied and intimidated I felt. While the “good cop” supervisor sat down across from me, the “bad cop” supervisor stood and paced […]

October 16, 2017 11:54 PM I’m having a terrible experience at London Heathrow. We landed at terminal 3 but my flight to LAX will leave out of terminal five. I ride the shuttle bus over there; it takes fifteen minutes. I get to security and am told my flight is the next day so I […]

Made it to the club. If I only have 75 minutes of use I have little choice but to do wine glasses as shots. This is glass number 3… As for the food, I overdid it. But given my flight to LHR has a buy-on-board via Marks&Spencer (including soft drinks), well, I’m almost glad I […]

The checkout time for my Airbnb was 12 noon. I didn’t feel like lugging my bag around Budapest so figured I’d just head to the airport nice and early, drop my bag and either walk around the terminal or duck into the Airline Lounge. I took the 12:33 pm bus for 900 ft.  The sign […]