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• The 47th Grandma’s Marathon (MN)

  

  Like so many great ideas in American history, this one started in a bar... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2024 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• SIXcess! The 43rd London Marathon

  

  Rarely does a marathon go according to plan. It’s a universal truth I learned—and learned to accept—long ago. But with nearly 50 marathons under my belt, I’d... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2023 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 63rd Atlantic City Marathon (NJ)

  

  Despite any misgivings I may have had about an oceanfront Las Vegas, I decided to push all my October chips to the center of the table and roll the dice on... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2023 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 3rd New England Green River Marathon (VT)

  

  By the time we arrived in Vermont, I was very much ready for race day and for some sense of normalcy... When your goal is to run a marathon in all 50 states,... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Inaugural Denali 100K (AK)

  

  Ask any runner, and they almost certainly can rattle off a short list of favorite races they’ve run. But how many runners could go a step further and tell you... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2022 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Big D-eal: The 50th Dallas Marathon Festival (50K)

  

  For Mom, who lived her final 46 years in North Texas as a proud non-runner... this one was for you. ❤️ Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2022 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Windermere Marathon (WA)

  

  Beggars, we’re told, can’t be choosers. And sometimes that’s a good thing... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2021 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Kansas Rails-to-Trails Extravaganza (KS)

  

  We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.– ArchilochusExtravaganza may be overstating things a bit, I thought as... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2021 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 18th Little Rock Marathon

  If I could earn just one marathon medal for the year, why not make it the largest? Welcome to my recap of a nostalgic '80s-themed race weekend, with more '80s... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2021 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Kobe Bryant: His Memory in Murals

  

  Kobe Bryant may be gone... but long live Kobe Bryant. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 14th Williams Route 66 Marathon (OK)

  

  It winds from Chicago to LAMore than two thousand miles all the wayGet your kicks on Route 66.– “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66,” Bobby Troup (1946)Ladies and... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• 50 Years, 50 Miles

  

  Join me for the two-minute version of my 50-mile birthday run thru SoCal beach cities! Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Thin Yellow Line

  

  Robert Frost wrote, "In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on." Except, that is, when it doesn't... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Refl-elections

  

  Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail.– Joseph R. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Undecided Voter’s Guide to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

  

  With one week to go until what many Americans are calling the most consequential presidential election of our lifetimes, I figure the most valuable public... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Anatomy of a Fake News Story

  

  …but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 16th Marshall University Marathon (WV)

  In the middle of Huntington, West Virginia there’s a river. Next to this river there is a steel mill. And next to the steel mill there is a school. In the middl... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 42nd Clarence DeMar Marathon (NH)

  

  In the storied 123-year history of the Boston Marathon, one name stands above all others. That name is Clarence DeMar. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 15th Fargo Marathon (ND)

  

  On a race day when Mother Nature was in foul temper, truly there was no place like Dome. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Chasing Perfection and the Mamba Mentality

  

  In Kobe Bryant’s world, there was no such thing as "good enough." Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2020 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS