Here’s a touch of personal back story to give this race review what nine out of ten fictitious bloggers call “The Hook” — something to reel you in. As usual, this is a bit of self-indulgence that adds little except for some local flavor to the proceedings. Anyway, back when I used to play football…
I’m seeing a huge upswing in traffic related to Disney running lately, so I thought I’d do the gentlemanly thing and help out all you awesome newcomers to some Disney related links on the blog. The main one is of course my Running Disney page, which makes a good starting point. But if you’d like…
OK so this is going to surprise absolutely NO ONE who follows this blog, but I just registered for Goofy’s Race and a Half Challenge. That’s a Half-Marathon on Saturday followed by a Full Marathon on Sunday, during the 2015 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. This makes perfect sense, because I am absolutely insane. But…
Hey, hey, we are The Monkees, you know we love to please A manufactured image with no philosophies… Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson wrote and produced the absurdist yet strangely (and often beautifully) endearing 1968 film Head. Directed by Rafelson, the movie takes The Monkees off the television screen and into their first cinematic adventure…
It’s the Grooviest 5K Run ever!! At least, that’s what they tell us. Whether or not the Dash From The Past 5K has earned that accolade is for the various Lords of Funk to decide (we meet quarterly at an Applebee’s parking lot), but I think the race makes for a strong contender. Dash From The Past…
I really started getting into The Beatles in late 1981; eleven-and-a-half years after the band broke up, and just under a year after John Lennon’s murder. Having been born in 1971, the ten year gap between the breakup and Lennon’s death is a bit fuzzy in my mind. I was certainly aware of The Beatles,…
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 🙁 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…
It took me awhile to really warm up to The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, which was not only the band’s fifth studio album but their last commercially successful one. Their previous two records, Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., showed that they weren’t just pretty pusses plastered onto prepackaged product for…
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…