I was supposed to be in Apache Junction, Arizona, this morning. I was supposed to be running the Lost Dutchman Marathon. But I’m not. Because of the stress fracture diagnosis, I am home, working on physical therapy repetitions. Ever twinge of soreness is read as pain and makes me less likely to run. The doctors […]
Sooooo… they tell me it’s a low grade stress fracture and I shouldn’t be running for a while. Could be 6 weeks. Could be 12 weeks. I’m already on new meds for the dopamine withdrawal! This has forced me to do the unthinkable. I’ve joined a gym. And I hate it. I knew I’d hate […]
Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman! An open letter to Mr. Owl of “three licks to the center of a tootsie pop” fame: Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are […]
…wins no races but does get you to the finish. Proof positive that slow and steady just puts you on display: Back to the story… which is appropriate for an event billing itself as celebrating storybook tales! In the end, it was my slowest marathon at a proper 26.2 mile event in 12 years. There […]
Time. It’s a funny thing. It’s both an artificial concept and a real world imperative. The sun rises and sets. An hour is 60 minutes. And a half marathon starting at 5 am means you have to be there… checking my notes… by 3:15 AM?! And the marathon tomorrow starts at 4:30 am so we […]
The 10K theme? A Mystery – supposedly of the missing acorns but that wasn’t really carried through the race. Unless you count the finisher shirt which shows Dale has eaten all the acorns, which, okay, sure. But mainly it was a race with various “mystery” elements to it. Sadly, nary a sighting of Basil of […]
During the pre-race festivities, there’s a roaming camera and commentator who chats with people in the corrals, looking for cool costumes or interesting stories, selling the idea of magic in the miles we’re about to undertake. Some are inspiring – a person running in honor of a loved one, raising awareness and money for a […]
Not as fast nor as varied as I would have liked… …but it’s what happened.
It was mostly done out of spite. A month ago I looked at my stats for the year and I realized I had done the least number of marathons since the Pandemic. And that seemed wrong. In a world that has far too often regressed to its past … to have fallen prey to the […]
There’ve been more than a few “Las Vegas Marathons.” There was an original course way back in the day that ran you out into the desert. Then Rock N Roll took it over for many years and had part of it run on the strip… sometimes early morning, more than once late at night with […]