THIS MONTH I AM CELEBRATING an important anniversary. I know this because LinkedIn told me so. You see, in 2017 I founded my zero waste event services company, Happy Planet Running. And this month marks the start of my fourth year. Holy smokes. It really does feel like just yesterday I was filling out the …
Category: Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
This Running Life
Life would be so much simpler if I hadn’t started running. This fall has been ten solid weeks of continual “busy mode” with any time I haven’t spent at my office job consumed with working races, running them, or travel. All my own fault; I knew what was coming and signed up for the commitments …
No Sugar Tonight: Two Very Different Experiences
IT BEGAN WITH A STOMACHACHE. I was working at a recent race, managing the Zero Waste program as usual. This is a very active job – lifting, moving things around and such, but mainly a lot of walking from place to place. And as typically happens at such races, I got hungry, early and often. …
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It’s Sad, and So Damn Pointless
Running is usually such a positive and uplifting sport that the occasional sad story gets, I think, an unusual amount of attention. Not just in the running community, but even in the national news. In the “sad” category I include runners who die during an event, or leave us too early due to disease (R.I.P., …
