Frustrated

IT HAPPENED AGAIN last week. I was at Body Specs for my usual Thursday torture session strength workout, working on the half foam. This is basically a foam roller cut in half lengthwise, and you stand on the flat part while the round part is under you. I use it both for ankle strengthening (through …

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Liberated

Liberated Well, it was quite a weekend. Actually, it started last Wednesday evening, when the power went out as a result of the massive ice storm that swept across Michigan. And even worse – the Internet went down! Yeah, our white pine was pretty bummed about the storm, too. With the help of a generator …

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No Gideon Bible This Year

No, I'm not going to explain the title. Consult the almighty G if you don't get it. I’ve been telling you about my training for next month’s Rocky Raccoon 100 trail race down in Huntsville, Texas, with my wife and me staying with her brother and his wife for a week or so. It seemed …

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2023: Running, Coffee, and Writing

Happy New Year to my wonderful readers! I hope you all had a better holiday than we did. The short version is that things went downhill fast after Lookout Mountain, and not in the good downhill way. Both my wife and I came down with COVID, which meant we barely saw the family, and Joyce’s …

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