Race Review: 2014 Disney Princess Half Marathon (2/23/2014), or: “There’s a lady they say who feeds the darkness…”

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 I decided to run another Full Marathon (26.2 miles), or: “Lady space, you better wake up fast, countdown is comin’ on…”

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…

Album Review: “Low Budget” — The Kinks (1979)

The Kinks’s 1979 album Low Budget remains their highest-charting US non-compilation album, and a validation of sorts for the band. It continues the mainstream AOR vein that began with Sleepwalker and Misfits, their first two Arista albums — aka the band’s so-called “Arena Rock” period. The album was a big commercial success for the band,…

Race Review: 2014 Miami Half Marathon (2/2/2014), or: “My friends are gonna be there too…”

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…

Disney Running Logos for the 2014 Princess Half Marathon, or: “In conversation she spoke just like a Baroness…”

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…

I’m Miami Famous on the Baptist Health Blog, plus some other quick updates…

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…

A Spectator’s Perspective of the 2014 Walt Disney World Marathon, or: “Always in focus, you can’t feel my stare…”

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…

Race Review: 2014 Walt Disney World Half Marathon (1/11/2014), or: “There’s so many things I wanna say…”

“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…

Race Review: 2014 Walt Disney World 10K (1/10/2014), or: “Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy…”

The 2014 Walt Disney World 10K was a pretty exciting race for a host of reasons. For starters it was an inaugural race, which, for Run Disney Obsessives (RDOs) everywhere, means that anyone running it would be counted among the very first to ever brave a brand-new course. This also meant that you were in on the ground…