Sarasota, how I adore you… Let’s put this in some measure of perspective. The 2013/14 season has been my third race season since I started running, and it has easily been my most crazy-bugfork and wildly inconsistent season ever. It started back in August with the Disneyland Half Marathon. Thanks to a lovely condition I…
Well it’s that time š Tomorrow morning Boots & I are off to the Gulf Coast of Florida to round out our 2013-2014 Race Season. We start off in Ft. Myers at 9AM for the Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk as part of Team Awesome. It’s a 5K romp around Lakes Regional Park benefiting The Lustgarten…
So I recently came to two rather obvious conclusions, and they are: (1) Smoking is really, really bad for you, and (2) I complain too much about Miami. The former is your general “NUH DOY!”, but the latter… that runs a bit deeper. I know Miami all too well. We moved there in 1972 (I…
On Sunday, the 23rd of February in the Year 2014 of the Common Era, I “ran” the 2014 Disney Princess Half Marathon in a black-and-purple sparkly tutu and a bright pinkish feathered boa for charity and raised a buttload of money as a result. THE END. No but seriously guys, I struggled with that opening…
So… hah. Remember when I mentioned that I was “retired” from running Full Marathons? Yeah that proclamation really took it in the shorts… You know, I’ve run only one Full. ONE. It was punishing enough. Afterward it wasn’t like I exactly swore off doing another, but the concept of ‘retirement’ sounded fine by me. The…
So on Sunday, February 2nd 2014, I ran the 2014 Miami Half Marathon for the second time. And for the second time in a row, I’ve sworn that I will never run the Miami Marathon/Half-Marathon again. Maybe this time it will take… Let’s back up a spell and warm-up the Wayback Machine. I ran this…
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the closet… We’re back, friends, with yet another revelation of our new Disney Running Logos. We’re now just about two weeks out from the 2014 Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend, and surprising absolutely no one who has been reading this blog for more than…
Hi gang. So let’s get the 800 pound emu out of the way: I’ve been radio-silent for the past two weeks. No worries though, there’s nothing horrifically awful or bad or even mediocre going on in Hokeyville. I think that four-part Disney Marathon Weekend monstrosity kind of blew my creative juices clear into the next…
So no, I didn’t run the 2014 Walt Disney World Marathon on Sunday, January 12, 2014. And man oh man, I so should have. Really. You can take a gander at my experience during the 2013 Walt Disney World Marathon to see what that incredible ordeal was like. Or, for the elevator pitch version: I…
“I would like… if I may… to take you… on a strange journey…” That’s a pretty good Charles Gray impression, isn’t it? I mean, it WOULD be, if you could hear me right now. But given that the previous proclamation was deliver as the written word and not in fact audio, this is entirely a…