Race Review: 2013 Keys100 100-Mile Team Relay (Part 2), or: “You can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won’t back down…”

Click here in case you missed PART ONE of our amazing weekend epic running spectacular… HI! Welcome back. Hope you all enjoyed a good rest, maybe a nice nosh… I was jonesing for an egg salad sammich myself, but– OH. Right, Part II of our Keys100 100-Mile Team Relay review. THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES Let’s see…

Race Review: 2013 Keys100 100-Mile Team Relay (Part 1), or: “Come on the amazing journey and learn all you should know…”

On the weekend of May 17-19, 2013, seventeen fellow runners and I embarked on an epic amazing adventure so gargantuan in scope, Homer would have whistled an epic haiku about it. The empirical notion that ‘haikus’ are in fact prosaic and not musical is not lost on me. But if that grants you an air…

Race Review: 2013 Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Half Marathon (03/16/2013), or: “Over the hills where the spirits fly…”

So last weekend we traveled up to Washington, DC for the Rock ‘n’ Roll USA Marathon event. This race was of particular interest to me for a variety of reasons. First off, it was a trip to Washington for a few days, and I hadn’t been to Washington as a tourist or for non-business reasons…

Race Review: 2013 Tough Mudder Miami (03/02/2013), or: “Oh well; who wants to live forever?? DIIIIIIIVE!!!!!”

Banded together from remote galaxies are twenty-two of the most sinister obstacles of all time: the Obstacles of Doom… featuring such fiendish hell-spawned blackguards as Devil’s Beard, Electric Eel, Fire Walker, Glory Blades, and the dastardly-dreaded Berlin Walls. Dedicated to a single objective: the conquest of the universe!!! Only one group dares to challenge this intergalactic threat…

Race Review: 2013 Publix Ft. Lauderdale A1A Half Marathon (02/17/2013), or: “Got the time tick-tick-tickin’ in my head…”

Forty-eight seconds. Forty-eight freakin’ seconds. This is not going to turn into one of those “for want of a nail” rants, because quite frankly those are not only played-out, they’re dreadfully boring to read. You don’t want to read it. And I don’t want to write it. So we both win here. But to think…

Race Review: 2013 Walt Disney World Marathon (01/13/2013), or: “We’re not indestructible. Baby, better get that straight…”

The 2013 Walt Disney World Marathon has been a longtime goal of mine, ever since I took up running in January 2011. Back then I made a goal to run a Half Marathon in a year, which I did (at Disney) in January 2012. After completing that run, I made it my goal to run…

Race Review: 2012 Allstate 13.1 Fort Lauderdale (11/11/2012), or: “Everyone knows it’s Windy…”

I originally wasn’t planning on running the Allstate 13.1 Fort Lauderdale half marathon, if for no other reason than I thought it would get in the way of my full Marathon training. I’m still prepping for the big event that goes live two months and a day from the time I’m typing this sentence, and…

Race Review: 2012 Twilight Zone Tower of Terror 10-Miler (9/29/2012), or: “I am trouble walkin’…”

So on September 29th, 2012, I completed the inaugural Twilight Zone Tower of Terror 10-Miler, held at the Walt Disney World resort. The 10-mile course, which commenced promptly at 10PM that night, started at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, ran down the Osceola Parkway to the Animal Kingdom, back around to Disney’s ESPN complex, through their fields,…

Race Review: 2012 Disneyland Half Marathon (9/2/2012)

Well I’m back from running the Disneyland Half Marathon, spending 5 nights in Southern California doing the whole tourist experience: sightseeing, sun-worshipping, marveling at the actual existence of mountains, eating way too much, staring down hyper-inflated security guys at House of Blues in Hollywood, plenty of funky alcoholic beverages, machaca!, crashing rooftop parties, recreating classic…