The majority of people will immediately blame someone else for their own incompetence. Some are foolish enough to create an excuse after their egregious mistake and hope the world ignores the glaring screw up. Misspelling a word in book title or movie comes to mind. Just blame the editor if you can’t think on your [...]

Are the Olympic Games supposed to be the world’s best athletes or just a shabby 2 oz pouring of random “athlete” samples from each country? The 2012 top 20 marathon times in the world are held by Kenyans and Ethiopians according to the ARRS. Of the next 20, only [...]

Let Them Eat Cake. (begin highly opinionated rant)

In this day of high dollar entry fees where cheap shirts snag at the first sign of a finger nail, isn’t it about time WE tell these races to take their high dollar prize money events and shove ‘em up their ass. I have not been running [...]

On Monday, April 16 we will celebrate 116 years of the Boston Marathon. Yet it was a mere 40 years ago that Bobbi Gibb became the first female to run and complete the race. But if you have money your gender or speed doesn’t matter any longer.

Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes near [...]

My blogging has not set any records as of late but in my defense (weak-ass excuse) I have been a bit busy running and even doing some coaching. I’m also attempting to do ALL this while working the equivalent of a FULL TIME JOB! (ask me about this inside joke anytime)

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My ability to run relatively fast is NOT entirely dependent on the DNA of my parents. If that were the case then I must be one of the last members of the “perfect” race. Apparently my genetics are responsible for everything I have done in running. Accordingly, if you run slower than me, your genetics [...]

Throughout the past several years I have probably pounded my mantra of “RUN MORE” into the brains of a few thousand runners with facebook, twitter and now this blog. A rare few have questioned the meaning behind this “bumper sticker” for my life. When even slightly [...]

I realize that I might appear as a proponent of the quantity argument and perhaps my recent journey to Seattle to run 3 marathons in 3 days supports that argument. If not my, 43 marathons this year alone should smack the gavel on the case. At what point do we [...]

In one of the many dumb ass moments I have had in my life, after yet another craptastic marathon, I staggered to a grinding halt during a recovery run and growled: “I am done racing. I quit. I am retired.” One of my running partners scoffed and smacked me in back of the head with [...]

Winning! Winner! Wins! While there is a myriad of definitions for these terms it is typically associated with a single person or team in a competition. I admit that in our current societal “no kid left behind” and “give ‘em all a medal” mentality that many will define winning as simply a person who finishes [...]