I ran San Diego once before. It was in 2007 as part of the then nascent series of Rock N Roll events.  When I did it way back when, I had yet to run a sub-4 race.  So it was nice to come back and run this modified course (I swear in 2007 we ran […]

For funsies… and for watermarked seasideness…

I’ve run with these organizers before, running along the PCH just outside Ventura . They typically use the same route, albeit they’ve recently modified it, mercifully removing a section that had us climbing an overpass incline and changing a two loop course to a three times out-and-back event. I had hoped a flattened run would […]

Seventy-four minutes. That’s how long it took to get out of the parking lot after the race. With gridlock straight out of Jacques Tati’s Trafic, or in that opening montage scene in LA Story, cars from every direction were jockeying for position in the lanes that supposedly lead out of the lots. Surprisingly few honking […]

I couldn’t sleep. Part of it is this head cold but even taking some serious drugs to help me breathe, I couldn’t fall asleep. This after a cramped red eye flight to Nashville with not a lot of sleep either. It had been probably three days since I slept. I had lost my voice, the […]

I’ve been to Nashville a few times as an adult. I’ve visited Cooter’s Museum devoted to the Dukes of Hazzard TV show. I’ve wandered round downtown, stood on the Grand Ol Opry Stage in its various iterations, and I’ve been to the Centennial Park’s 1897/1931 Parthenon recreation. And so as I stumbled about this self-proclaimed […]

This has been a rough 48 hours. From departure red-eye issues at LAX, to rental car snafus in Cincinnati Airport (located in Kentucky FWIW), to a drunken belligerence at the college town, to a painful run with nagging chronic injuries, the final insult was my flight home as delayed so I’ll miss my connection and […]

It’s been a minute, as the slanglish sentence structure says. But as I missed the back way into my hotel (which turns out is the ONLY way to my hotel), I flashed to a dusty highway for Marion Crane. While there aren’t 50 vacancies, there also is a sense that this is not a place […]

Nope. Most days my body isn’t able to do what it used to do. But when the heart’s not in it, it’s REALLY hard going. And today was one of those days when I just couldn’t muster any enthusiasm. An ennui day. No endorphins kicked in. It was just a slog of a day. Been […]

Another year, another exorbitant entrance fee with mandatory “platform fee” charges added on to said fee.