First, congratulations to Halbert Walston on his 200th marathon. After years of conflicts I finally got the chance to try the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati. The much ballyhooed “hills” were little to write home about. It is a moderately hilly marathon (less than Mad, Atlanta, San Francisco, but more than Pittsburgh and New York)…
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Glass City Marathon 2018
Please forgive while I brag on my childhood neighbor’s first marathon today at the Glass City Marathon in Toledo, Ohio. Joseph R. Elder somehow found time to train while working a more than full time job and raising two kids. Apparently he fell in with the wrong crowd on a Z Adventures cruise and caught…
Bataan Memorial Death March
Finished today at the Bataan Memorial Death March civilian heavy division (carrying a 35lb ruck) in just under 7 hours. Making it my second slowest marathon finish. I really don’t have a benchmark for this sort of thing. So, it is neither good, nor bad. It’s just a thing. On a related note, if you…
2018 Mesa-PHX Marathon [DNF]
Happy 50th marathon to Hollie Ashby at the Mesa-PHX marathon. Great seeing you, JM Gabriel, and Andy Bowden. Today was not my day. Between injury, the worst cold of my life, and no real sleep this should have been a Did Not Start but I’m a stubborn idiot who needed 16 miles to figure that…
Houston Marathon 2018
A cool day on a flat, mostly concrete Houston course. The race is well organized, quite well supported and has great community enthusiasm. If I had one criticism it would be the only gels I saw on the course weren’t until about mile 21. I’m not much for the big city races (Houston is the…
Savage 7 Marathons-Newtonmas 2017
In 2009 avid marathoner, Chuck Savage, created a series of 7 races, one a day, beginning the day after Christmas until New Year called the “Savage Seven” The original series was on a track in Ocala, Florida. A few years hence it was moved to this park also in Ocala. The race consists of a…
Mount Dora Half Marathon 2017
My first and only half marathon of the year at the Mount Dora Half in Mount Dora, Florida. A chilly (for Florida) hilly (for Florida) race through the cutesy downtown of Mount Dora and the lake home neighborhoods. The race is Christmas themed, and the town, which seems to derive a not insignificant amount of…
Kiawah Island Marathon 2017
The Kiawah Marathon in Charleston, South Carolina completes a second circuit of a marathon or ultra in all 50 states. A flat, coastal marathon on roads and a little bit of bike path through the golf resort. Cold temperatures, 40 degrees, made for great running conditions. The nearly hour I spent in traffic trying to…