Gone Somewhere

[Note: Submitted as Octobers newletter article.]   As I’ve been preparing for my race this weekend, my first 50K, I’ve been thinking more and more about what running means to me. I’ve put my thoughts on paper – words to motivate me and keep me going.  This month, I would like to share these thoughts [...]

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(Note: This is the article for this months RunnersFit newsletter.) They say that most accidents happen within five miles of home – but usually the victim knows what caused the accident. That was not the case for my dear friend Left Knee (LK for short). The accident happened about three weeks ago while on a [...]

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2008-april-newsletter Okay, here is yet another marathon post. I’m using an edited version of my original race report for my article in this months club newsletter, so for those of you reading it, sorry for the not-so-original content. Next month, I’ll try to put together what I was originally going to write about. I’ve edited [...]

March Runners Fit Newsletter article. Recently, I was talking to a friend about shoes. He couldn’t understand spending a lot of money for shoes when he could go to the local budget sports store and buy a pair for $25. It reminded me of when I thought the same thing, and the events that led [...]

(This months newsletter column) Running, by nature, tends to be a solitary activity. Even if there are others around, we’re generally wrapped up in ourselves. “Oh, I’m getting tired” may be a common thought, but “he looks tired” isn’t so common. Even if we did think it, we couldn’t do anything about it, so we’d [...]

After my last post about running at the end of the year, I passed it on to Ryan while trying to find some email addresses. He read it, and was impressed and suggested I do a article for his monthly newsletter. So, for the second time in my life, someone has read something of mine [...]

After last Saturday’s group run, someone suggested a Sunday morning run, which sounded good. That the forecast called for rain didn’t seem to be an issue, since we were going to run trails at Little Mulberry park, and as we all know, the muddier the better.Three of us showed up at the Hog Mountain entrance, [...]