I believe my time here on Livejournal is done. It's been fun (mostly).

The story will continue over at Blogger, and you can get there with the following link, should you choose to:

Left Right Repeat (Again)

Hey, I started a race ( Read more... )

Wow! What an awesome day for a race! Too bad I didn't run it ( Read more... )

I am a runner ( . / ? / ... / ! )

(.) I am a runner ( Read more... )

"Ready... Set... GO!"

"Holy crap," I thought, "did this race just start with the words 'Ready, Set, Go'?"

This thought was thunk at the start line of the Manchester City Marathon two weeks ago (yeah, I reeealy procrastinated on this one).

The decision to run this race was very last-minute. Thursday before the race, I decided not to run New York. To be ( Read more... )

I was on a plane today, and I wrote some stuff to post.  It seems a bit out of place now, but I thought I would share it anyhow.  The story has changed significantly since I wrote this, and I'll have to put those new thoughts to pixels later.

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Well, it has been an interesting couple of days. Getting right to the point, I'm not running the NYC ( Read more... )

Why do I turn into such a klutz before these races? It happens every time.  For the past 2 weeks or so, I have been randomly running into stuff, tripping over everything, stubbing toes, banging my knees and hands and elbows and you name it on anything that happens to be in a 3-foot radius. And when I am not actually causing physical damage to ( Read more... )

I am referring to the time window before a big event where people start asking "the question". "The question" is not really worded the same way every time.  It can vary from "Your race is getting close, right? Six weeks? A month?" to "Hey, how was your Marathon? Wasn't that last week?" and everything in-between those two endpoints.  It need not be ( Read more... )

Year 8 done! The relay changed hands this year, much to my disappointment. But I suppose I would have been much more disappointed if it had ceased to exist. Along with the name change came a few other changes, the biggest one being the race format. In the past, it's been (like the name implies) a relay. Here's what some famous dictionary has to say ( Read more... )

On Monday, I successfully avoided posting about my mid-run emergency with a back-to-nature twist. As much my inner 12-year-old wanted to, I figured I've written enough about poo, both here and on my kid blog. But then, I suppose I could write just one more...

If you've been running on the roads in Austin recently, you've probably been sticking to ( Read more... )