The Tokyo Marathon had elites only. Hong Kong cancelled outright. Rome cancelled. Paris postponed to the fall. I’ve run all of those in past years and it was a bummer to know folks who had been training and looking forward to running them missed out this year. I was actually kind of surprised LA went […]
I still hate Daylight Savings. I hate it. I hate it, hate it, hate it. So here’s a timeturner turn back to March 1, 2020. I just got a notice from the Napa Valley Marathon that they were comp’ing me a one-image download from the official photos. I debated between 2 or 3 of them […]
I’m tired. I’ve been up since 3 am which is really 2 am and I finished the marathon at 10:05 which is really 9:05 am. And now I don’t know what time it is. There’s what that clock says but did I remember to change it last night or this morning? Is that the current […]
I originally had signed up for this race because a few folks had said they had wanted to visit Napa… and me being me, I thought, “Hey! I’ll run a marathon there at the same time! We should all go together! Ya know, like a group road trip!” But logistics and no doubt my own […]
As I drove north to Napa, I found my mind drifting. It’s a fairly easy drive, straight up the 5, and so while one should never drive drunk or distracted per se, sometimes one drives… casually? But not casually as in less formally but cause-aly, as in one drives with cause but the effect is […]
I’ve been here before… but not on foot. A lot of the Seville Marathon course followed the “Hop On, Hop Off” Bus Route of yore… with “yore” being specifically yesterday. It would’ve been fresh in my head anyway… but because I had actively sought to be IN-active yesterday, I actually rode the HoHo twice… once […]
Maybe I shouldn’t have walked to the expo. I woke up this morning with a knot in my left shin. It feels like how I imagine it felt for Batman when that shark latched onto his leg… only I’m dangerously low on Bat Anti-Shark Spray. After ripping apart my luggage though, I did find one […]
The other night over tapas, Tomas told Susana and me that the marathon expo was too far to walk and that we should take the metro – it would be no more than 15 minutes. I walked. It wasn’t because I was cheap – it was because I’m a runner. And walking the city seemed […]
Tomas runs a Tapas Food Tour through AirBNB Experiences. It’s a low-cost ticket item – maybe $16 American – but you then pay for whatever food you get. Essentially you pay for his expertise and guidance on where to go and what to get. And like the Epcot Food and Wine Festival or any small […]
What a maroon. Have you ever had an experience where you talk about something and then that something keeps coming up in other contexts, places, times… like a premonition of what’s to come or a hitchhiking reference that tags along to other parts of your life? It’s not deja vu but it’s… a cousin to […]