The Bet

Just pulled out 4 running logs from the archives. I turned to March in each one to get an idea of what I was doing running-wise during this month in years past. Here’s a quick glance… March  25-27, 1996 [I’m 18 years old]: 6 x 800 track workout @ about 2:30 average & 7.5 miles…

Dating Life of the Long Distance Runner

[pulled from my archives of February 2010] The dating scene for a distance runner presents some real challenges. Not only does one first have to expend extra energy finding someone to go out with, but then one must find the disposable cash not spent on running shoes or race entries in order to show a…

A Life Worth Living

Maybe we all knew it at the time, how these were some of the purest of moments. It wasn’t stated outright by many. I’m sure I said it at various points, tending to be prone to hyperbole. But this was deserving of the “hyper.” Hyper-colored browns, yellows, reds amid the withering autumn leaves. The quintessential…