Last week my run club hosted a “Boston Marathon” on the day it would have been run. I was told over 25 of us showed up to run it (solo) and afterward some of us gathered on the run studio’s lawn to enjoy treats and socially-distanced conversation. Among them was Mike, a strong, dedicated runner …
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Telling My Stories
I began this blog in 2011, which means this is my TENTH YEAR posting about my adventures in this spot. Wow. Really hard to believe. It really doesn’t seem all that long ago that I was writing my first posts and hoping someone other than my family would read them. And they have! It amazes …
It’s Okay. No, Really, It’s Okay.
This running life can be funny. Two times recently I’ve had to be told, or tell myself, that something perfectly normal and reasonable is okay. As in, I was actually feeling guilty about something I had no business feeling guilty about. The Thursday after I got back from the Grandmaster Ultra 50, I went to …
50 Miles in the Desert: A Grand(master) Adventure
IT WAS A PHOTO FINISH. If only there had been a camera at the finish line. Chris and I descended a sandy slope onto the road and charged toward the finish straight ahead. After fifty miles on rugged, rocky desert trails, we found the strength to sprint, and over those last hundred yards we continued …
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