Just checked a live webcam in Denver and it looks like some trees are beginning to turn. I’m hoping for a fall day with color and not a bleak wintry day with bare trees (a great early Fleetwood Mac album by the way) on the 15th. Knowing Denver it could be in the [...]

Next time you feel that running might have lost some of its luster, some of the shiney goodness that you remember from days gone by, do what I did yesterday and find a new run.  A new epic run.  Plan it.  Map it out.  Go where you’ve never gone.  Bring a cell phone and some [...]

I knew that the route I’d chosen for this morning’s run was about nine miles from my house down to the end of State St. the main drag through Santa Barbara that ends at the beach.  This was a route along the hills for five or  six miles, and I knew that it would be [...]

. . . Well, how did I get here?
Is David Byrne a runner? He looks like one, all skin and bones.
Oh, excuse me I was thinking back to a time before I was a runner, before I lived in my beautiful house, with my beautiful wife. Back in those days I wondered why all [...]

I have not posted here in some time.  I’ve been running and writing, but unable to finish what I start as far as blog posts. Over the last number of days I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about blogging and running.  About why we do each of these and what makes a good runner [...]

Saturday night/Sunday morning - 15 miles in 2:32 (10:08/mile)
This run started around 10pm. It was not fun. Brought my total for the week to 47 miles.
Tuesday afternoon - 5.5 in 50:00 (9:05/mile)
Wednesday afternoon 6 miles in 58:00 (9:40/mile)

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I’ve been working on this post for so long that it now seems old and stale. [...]