Why aren’t you running? The original plan was to participate in the Revel Kulia marathon Saturday on the island of Hawai’i (aka the big island), hop a flight to Maui and do the Maui Oceanfront Marathon on Sunday. That was before I realized plantar fasciitis had kind of turned me into a hobbling mess after…
Category: Travel
More travel, less running
So I’ve had plantar fasciitis, aka policeman’s heel, that phenomenon where you get out of bed and your heel hurts first thing in the morning until you put on some sandals or shoes, and it’s marginally better, for as long as I can remember, but in the last few months it’s reached the point where…
Turks and Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands 11-JAN-2020 I had come to Providenciales, or Provo as it is known to the locals, for the TCI Move-a-thon, a running festival on the small British territory largely out of a curiosity about the race. There had been some consternation amongst the Marathon Globetrotters about an inability to get enough participants…
2019 Year-In-Review
When I started planning 2019 my primary goal was to complete the 3rd round of the states, but then considering I was planning to go to Antarctica, South Africa for Comrades, Asia for the Tokyo Marathon, South America for Buenos Aires, it seemed only logical that if I slipped in a trip to Europe and…
“Sleeping under the stars”
Deschutes National Forest Off Highway 58 I returned to Oregon to run a trail race near Crater Lake, and this time flew into Euguene instead of Portland to save myself a few hours of driving in the middle of the night. I hadn’t anticipated I’d still had almost 3 hours from the airport, but off…
Hiking Flattop Mountain
Chugach State Park Alaska, United States Alaska’s most visited mountain is Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park and it’s not hard to see why. The trailhead is within a short drive of Anchorage, where 40 percent of Alaskans live. Most of the trail is quite walkable and offers spectacular views and wildflowers and for those…