An Almost Last Minute Decision: Shoreline Marathon

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I’ve been struggling for several months. A lingering injury in my right leg. It’s not plantar fasciitis. It’s not broken. It’s just… tweaked? Weak? Hurts. If emotional and situational stress has a tendency to attack one’s weakest physical part, this isn’t surprising either – my back and leg are definitely the proverbial soft underbelly, even […]

The Bakersfield Marathon… One More Time!

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An excuse to run a race. An early start. A bit of rain while we waited. A slog at the end. Not much of a poem, but there ya go. But here’s something to remember the day by: I asked chatGPT to make a CGI animated cartoon version of my finisher photo as that seems […]

Revenge of the Socal River Marathon…

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I’ve been here before… on the wings of a demon! — “Exorcist II: The Heretic” One of my favorite lines from a not particularly great movie. And honestly, I don’t even think that’s the EXACT quote, but it’s how I remember hearing it. In this age where truth and facts are subjective and/or, well, “heretical” […]

2025: The Dopey Challenge Continues with a 10K

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Another day, another 2:30 AM wakeup… which I will be nostalgic for come Sunday when the Marathon starts a half hour earlier. By this point, we all know the drill — I whine a bit, I post a few photos, and we all go home a little more pixie-dusted, a little more tired, a little […]

2025: The Dopey Challenge Begins With A 5K

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I’m a bit frazzled. The LA Wildfires rage and I’m back home running the Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge. My apartment building though is under an emergency evac adjacent “warning”, right on the line of the mandatory evacuation order. Friends are dealing with shelters and fallout. And here I am dressed up like Waldo to […]