My niece Robin continues to beast it up. An ultrarunner for just a few years, she’s already completed the Pikes Peak 50 and the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim (that’s right, both ways in one day). And Courtney Dauwalter called her awesome (*). Last week she returned to Michigan for her first 100K …
Category: Running & Cycling
Remembering Michael
AS IF I NEEDED another reminder of the ephemeral nature of human life, I got one this week. My friend Michael Parker, runner, trainer, and all around good guy, passed away a few days ago from cancer. The same cancer that ended the life of my wife in June. The news hit me pretty hard …
My Lame Excuse
The only thing worse than running is not running. - Walter Rhein As a blogger, sometimes one goes long stretches without posting, and one lesson I’d been taught early on is not to apologize for that. For there are occasionally more important things to do than sit at a computer and spit out 800 words …
Good News, Bad News, Food News, Sad News
Wow, it’s been an eventful start to the year. Just a couple short weeks ago it was shaping up to be the kind of Michigan winter I grew up with, snow on the ground for a long time, and I was running laps around my property in showshoes, prepping for the annual Bigfoot Snowshoe Race …
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