Where Have You All Been?

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Where have I been, you ask? Why, I have been on a writing sabbatical, amassing vast quantities of knowledge of all things running, nutrition, and neuroscience. I must admit, I don’t know that much about neuroscience yet, but I read a blog on …

2016 Presidential Election – Demystified

As the saying goes, opinions are like certain body parts – everyone has one. But, that’s a limited analogy for most of us. I have an opinion on most everything, just ask my wife. Since the current culture encourages us to publish our unsolicited opinions openly and frequently, we oblige, and then we brace ourselves …

The 2015 LA Marathon -or- An Episode of The Walking Dead

“Did you hear? LA is going to be scorching!” “Record-breaking heat expected at the LA Marathon.” “Race Officials Worry About Race Temps.” “Race Organizers Prep for Record Heat, Zombie Apocalypse, and Martian Attack.” The warnings were ominous. We’ve been planning a family Spring Break trip to LA for the marathon, which coincidentally fell on my …

Our Longest Run

Those of us who find peaceful relief in seeing swirling, fleeting thoughts neatly and organizationally laid out in paragraphs, sentences, and words can appreciate how difficult it can be to set out on a writing journey. It’s not been difficult to write about all things running, such as injury, training, nutrition, and races (self-deprecating humor …

Well Done, Oklahoma

This past weekend, Oklahoma opened its doors and welcomed Texans and other foreigners to its lovely state for the 14th running of the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. Dubbed a “run to remember,” the race was indeed memorable for all the right reasons and a few of the wrong ones. As we traversed the wind-swept and …

Making Austin Weirder

I wish I could commit the time necessary to write race recaps in the first couple of days after a race, but circumstances usually get in the way. Sometimes it’s travel or work, but often it’s the fog of pedestrian war and the inability to construct coherent thoughts, much less type them on a keyboard. …