In-Between Marathon Musings: Eating, Singing Bears, and Talking Trash

While picking up my Martian Marathon race packet at the expo, I got to talking with a woman whose husband is going to attempt his first ultramarathon. That's macho enough in my book, but not for him; he's going right to a 50-miler, and a tough one at that (the September North Face Challenge, as …

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Great Event, But Where’s All the Trash?

Last Sunday was another "first" in my adventures in running - an early morning two-hour drive to Grand Rapids and the Gazelle Girl Half Marathon & 5K. So, one might wonder why a manly man like me would be part of a female-only race. Well, I was not there to take part in the race, …

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