Big Long Thing #10 for 2019 at the Fort Lauderdale A1A marathon, my hometown throw down. This year in addition to the usual cast of local characters oodles of marathon maniacs joined us. It was great to see so many people, but I’m afraid I was slow or thoughtless with the camera and missed several…
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Miami Marathon 2019
Another Miami Marathon. Rain stayed in check mostly, some winds but not bad. There was a course change this year effectively reversing the direction of the last 13 miles from previous years. I don’t know how I feel about that change. Instinct is that I liked the old way, but that may be me just…
Skydive Ultra 50k 2019
Skydive Ultra 50k in Clewiston, Florida. A looped course around an airfield and sugarcane fields just south of Lake Okeechobee. A few words about logistics because that was something I had a lot of difficulty understanding until I had shown up today: each distance on offer (200 miles, 150 mile, 100 miles, 50 mile, 50…
Spring Hill Marathon Mania 2019
BLT #183 at Spring Hill Marathon Mania in Spring Hill, FL. A Florida-flat out and back course on the Suncoast bicycle trail in Hernando and Pasco Counties. The good: This was a cheap race when I paid for it in 2018. When I was a no-show last year due to injury/depression The race director took…
Jacksonville Marathon 2018 and Jungle Bell Jog
Andy’s birthday marathon, Cade’s 250th, a PR for Kevin, and even me—the Grinch—in a Santa suit for a 5k. It was a full weekend at the Jacksonville Marathon and the Jingle Bell Jog 5k with fellow Frontrunners and Amy. The rain held off at Jacksonville and it was its typical flat suburban course on a…
Palm Beaches Marathon 2018
30th Florida marathon done at the Palm Beaches Marathon. A flat, road marathon along the intercoastal waterway. They somehow managed to make the course even more dull than last year by removing the portion in Palm Beach. So rightly this is the West Palm Beach Marathon. Support folks were great but the sun was relentless…
Jacksonville USO Armed Forces Half 2018
Sometimes a plan just comes together. I was happy as a pig in shit to be able to do a race with Karen, especially what would turn out to be her 200th half, so we headed up Florida’s east coast on a road trip to Jacksonville. At first I was a little worried we might…
Jack’s 50k Trail Race 2018-DNF
Sometimes a plan just falls apart. I was supposed to do five 10k loops at Jacks Trail 50k today. But because I’m an idiot who wouldn’t wear his sunglasses I drove into a curb and screwed up my wheel. Since it’s Sunday and nothing opens in the area until the late morning I decided to…
Southernmost Marathon 2018
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not who someone else is today.” It’s good advice. Like most good advice, it’s easier given than taken. I’m not entirely happy with my performance today at the Southernmost Marathon in Key West, but this is my second time doing it. In 2013 it was the third marathon…