It’s been almost ten years since I ran my first marathon. I don’t think the Dallas White Rock Marathon still exists, but it was an emotional day for me so I’ll always think fondly on that race. It’s got me thinking about running, my history, my present, my future of running. About three years after […]
It’s been more than five years since my last race (the 2011 Houston Marathon which I never wrote about). As soon as I crossed the finish line of that marathon five years ago I swore I was done racing. I was burnt out, I was physically hurt, I knew I didn’t want to keep pushing […]
I went for a snowy run the other day on the trails behind our house and created a video to share the beauty. Video is taken along the East Boulder Trail at the Gunbarrel Farms trailhead, behind our house. Maybe the videos are a little too much sharing, a little too much self-promotion, but that’s […]
So I mentioned I was kind of excited about running again. Unfortunately for you, that means running log posts. Like this one. <NelsonVoice>Haha!</NelsonVoice> Actually, I don’t have much to report. Yes, I’ve been running, but I’m not crazy about it, like I used to be. No fanaticism nor narcissism here. Since I basically stopped running, […]
There’s a lovely article by John Spong about his late father in the December 2015 issue of Texas Monthly. I encourage you to read it as it’s a stirring recollection of fatherhood, grief and God. Spong went to my high school, where he was several years older than me, and I graduated with his brother. […]
Spring racing season is over for me after running today’s Bun Run 5k. To that in a moment, but let’s call the season a success. The goal was to get faster in the shorter distances this Spring and I did that. Four races, 3 PRs. The lone non-PR race, the Capitol 10,000, was still a […]
I’d like to polish the Knob more often, hopefully this is a start. I still have goals, and I thought it was beneficial in the past to recount them here, so I’d like to resume that habit. It’s tiresome to be so navel-gazing all the time though, so I’d like the Knob to branch out […]
Well what’s this? A web log, or as the kids call it these days, a b’log? Why yes, yes it is. Keeping the knob on life support, hanging on by a thread. It’s been a couple months since I last posted some gibberish about cat pictures, so how about a return to the days of […]