2009 Boston Marathon. April 20, 2009. 2:56:20 finish time. Great overall experience, memorable trip with my wife, loved Boston, fun time with Gazelles, marathon best by 2 minutes … a rather disappointing race. My mind is a jumble of thoughts about the race so I’ll just lay them out here and see if they make […]
Nine days until a little race in Boston but first I’ll recap the Capitol 10,000 from March 29. I didn’t decide to run the 10K until two days prior to the race, but when trying to register found it was sold out. Emailed the race director and she said she had some “Local Elite” entries […]
I just had to post these. Hours of greatness. These are real and not from the Simpsons. A sampling: Alcohol Is Dynamite (1958) Bookkeeping and You (1947) Bus Nut (1980) Case Study – LSD (Lockheed, 1969) Cooking Frozen Beef Outbreak of Salmonella Infection (1954) Soapy The Germ Fighter (1951) Story of a Peanut Butter Sandwich […]
So what do you think? Can you tell which one is fifteen years younger, 50 minutes faster, 5 times wealthier…? I guess it’ll be a showdown when we both run Boston this year… ;) … taking my tongue out of my cheek now. Ryan Hall photo from here. It's only fair to share…FacebookTwitterEmail
That RunTex article I regurgitated in my last post isn’t very clear. I finished second in 17:22, 40 seconds behind the winner who ran 16:42. He ran 16:02 in a different race on Saturday in Houston. On one thing the article is clear. I don’t have leg speed. Going into the race I thought I’d […]
“In the BagelFest (which had a record field of 900 runners), Chemirmir opened up with a conservative 5:30 mile in the hilly first mile and the only runners within shouting distance was 37-year-old David Vance and 41-year-old Eric Mata of Dripping Springs. But neither could match the leg speed of Chemirmir who won a 5-K […]
My own private Twitter. Short updates. Too much pressure to pen shiny new Knobs; maybe this will loosen the tongue. Training going well I guess. Five weeks since 3M, seven weeks to go, missed 3 days of training after minor … uh … got a couple of good 20 milers in, one solo, one over […]
It’s like I have, uh, what’s it called … uh … writer’s block? I don’t know if it is related to my runner’s block, or a symptom, or what … but my motivation to dot dot dot the little ellipses of my life ebbs so low I find it hard to write or run. I […]