The Long Beach Marathon’s 40th Anniversary Event

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It turns out I and an Otter Pop are my worst enemies. Also the merging of half marathoners and marathoners at mile 24. But I get ahead of myself… The Long Beach Marathon moved up its start time to 5:30 out of high temperature fears. They proved to be unfounded… as did the 5:30 start […]

Surfers Point Marathon – Rhyming Couplet

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It’s brutally hot here in California at the moment. A heat dome or heat furnace or maybe just a descent into a level of Hell usually reserved for the Texas panhandle. But it’s been topping 100 for the last few days and into next week. Still, I had signed up for a race out in […]

Seaside Marathon – To The Deep Blue Sea

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I’ve run with these organizers before, running along the PCH just outside Ventura . They typically use the same route, albeit they’ve recently modified it, mercifully removing a section that had us climbing an overpass incline and changing a two loop course to a three times out-and-back event. I had hoped a flattened run would […]

The Rock N Roll Nashville Marathon Expo

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I’ve been to Nashville a few times as an adult. I’ve visited Cooter’s Museum devoted to the Dukes of Hazzard TV show. I’ve wandered round downtown, stood on the Grand Ol Opry Stage in its various iterations, and I’ve been to the Centennial Park’s 1897/1931 Parthenon recreation. And so as I stumbled about this self-proclaimed […]