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 [...]
I am going to start printing my own money. I will call them Junk Bills. I have entered no less than 30 marathons this year and I feel like I am running paycheck to paycheck. I like eating ramen noodles, too. Did you know there is over 100 ways to cook [...]
Getting lost on a course might be difficult to understand for 5K runners. Stretch that course to over eight times the length of a 5K, throw in multiple towns, turns, some trails and getting lost might be more believable. When this happens I feel like a douche and my stomach turns over as if I [...]
Perhaps it was turning 40 years-old that forced my hand to begin publishing my thoughts on a blog. Is there permanence when one publishes a blog? Will this be my personal “Rocky” statue? Probably not. However, the requests to write a book and share my experiences in running convinced me to start putting my [...]
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