It All Has to Go

July 4, 2020.Reading time 21 minutes.

Charles Thomas Hulsey, Private, 3rd Regiment, Confederate Cavalry (Howard’s), Company D … Great Great Great Grandfather John W. Parmer, Private, 29th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, Company K … Great Great Great Grandfather Payton W. Eagle, Private, 42nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company B … Great Great Great Grandfather William James McHargue, Blacksmith, 2nd Regiment, North Carolina […]

So.Much.Garbage

April 14, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

This morning I went to pick up trash. A few years ago, when I began running, I was always appalled at the garbage along the Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County, New York. Piles and piles of post-consumer trash, as well as some bigger things – a tire, a shopping cart in the middle of […]

Hopkin’s Prairie in the Ocala National Forest

June 5, 2018.Reading time 23 minutes.

I almost let camping season in Florida get away from me. Last year, I took my oldest for his first overnight in a tent, which turned into a smashing success. He’s been talking about going back ever since, and I did a poor job of making a new trip happen. I can make a lot […]

RR #30: Star Wars Dark Side Half Marathon

May 4, 2018.Reading time 38 minutes.

This is part two of my report of the 2018 Dark Side Half Marathon weekend – I again did the First Order Challenge, which means I ran the 10k on Saturday and the half marathon on Sunday. I talked about the expo and the 10k here. This is the race report for the half marathon. […]

RR #29 – 2018 Star Wars Dark Side 10k

April 29, 2018.Reading time 22 minutes.

In the afterglow of Ragnar Washington DC, my friend and van-mate Dave had me convinced to run my first full marathon this spring. We tentatively chose a race, we made tentative plans, we tentatively started looking at training schedules, the whole nine. And then, back in January, he realized that a nagging injury and the […]

RR #28 – 2018 Celebration Half Marathon

April 23, 2018.Reading time 21 minutes.

I wasn’t planning on running the Celebration Half Marathon again this year. For the last several months now, running has felt like a slog – I enjoy having run, but I do not enjoy running. I’ve struggled to drag myself out of the house to run in the morning in a way that I don’t […]

Take a look, it’s in a book…

January 15, 2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

One of the best parts about being a parent and a full-blown adult is getting to be Santa Claus during Christmas. I get into the role – while my wife and I do the big Santa presents together, I am in charge of all of the stockings, including mine. This is serious business, and I […]

On Top of the World – A Hike in Rocky Mountain National Park

November 3, 2017.Reading time 26 minutes.

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir We like living in Florida. While the weather during the summer is atrocious – hot and humid and rainy – the weather from October through April is glorious. And, besides, summer in Florida is no worse than winter in New York. We have found […]

RR #27: Celebration Rotary Club Pancake Run 5k

October 31, 2017.Reading time 17 minutes.

I thought that Ragnar DC was going to be my last run for a while. My plan had been to run that event, enjoy myself, and then take some time off from running to focus on some CrossFit goals. I like how running makes me feel, but sometimes the actual doing of the thing is […]

RR# 26, continued: Ragnar Washington DC – Part 2

October 29, 2017.Reading time 32 minutes.

This is part two of my Ragnar Washington DC race report – if you haven’t read part one, you should click on this right now to head over there and read that first. When we left off, we were pulling into Exchange #12 for our first break of the event. The exchange was at a […]