If you’re ever in Santa Barbara and want to drive around and look at the rich people’s houses there are two places you should go; Montecito, which is not technically Santa Barbara, but is a small community just south of the city, and Hope Ranch. Montecito is home to Oprah and a bunch of [...]

(Note: The first “thing” is not specifically running related, and it’s another kind of geeky thing. The running stuff comes later, so skip ahead if need be).
First - I posted a few days ago about how I update my blogroll and mentioned that I use Bloglines. That was true, and it had been [...]

Us folks that write these running blog thingies have a couple things in common.

We like to write (or at least don’t hate it)

We run (They are RUNNING blogs for heaven’s sake)

We know something about computers (at least how to turn them on, log onto a blogging site and fill out a form)

I mostly [...]

Being in sunny CA I seldom get a chance to run in the rain but today was nice and wet. Not a huge downpour, just a steady drip with an occasional breeze. Put in 7 miles and was nice and soaked at the end when I sloshed into the car dealership to pick [...]

I came across the following in Lana’s blog where she does a great writeup of her sub-4 finish at the Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon in Phoenix. She’s describing her conversation with pain:
“There you are. I knew you would be here. You’re not my enemy, you’re my friend. I love this pain. You’re what makes [...]

As a general rule I don’t write much about specific runs but certain runs are either so good or so bad that they deserve their own dedicated post. Yesterday morning I experienced one of these kinds of runs and it will, unfortunately, go down as on of the not-so-good runs of the year so [...]

A couple of posts that I’ve read in the last few weeks, especially this one and a comment made during my afternoon run today have got me thinking about running and patience. Running, especially if you have any desire to improve, demands a U.S.S. Ronald Reagan-sized boatload of patience.
(BTW - The picture [...]

I got a new gym bag for Christmas. Actually my wife did, which is pretty funny because she absolutely, positively doesn’t need one, but her office gave them out as presents and it made it’s way to my side of the bed and got filled up with the gear from my old bag in [...]

My most consistent running partner is Tony. (No, not the one in the picture.) He only wanted to do three miles on Tuesday (getting this typed up a little late). I needed to get in at least six. The easy solution, of course, was to do the three mile loop Tony [...]

I mentioned in the earlier post about my dad that I might work up a longer post about his life and death and post it to my regular (mostly un-updated) blog. I may do that someday, but in the meantime I have some running related thoughts relating to him that I’d like to put [...]