Saturday, January 17th, 2009 – Helen, Georgia – Hogpen Hill Climb 17K “One of the toughest races in North America”, so the brochure says. When we started talking about doing this in our running group, how could I pass it up? Hip problems mostly behind me, needing to get some hill work in for upcoming [...]
Read More..>>Way back when I was in the army, after field exercises and training, we used to have an AAR, After Action Review. This was a time to review what went right and what went wrong and basically, how can we learn from our mistakes. Back then, I didn’t appreciate them too much, I think mainly [...]
Read More..>>Sunday started cold and wet, about 43 degrees and raining as I left the house. The forecast was for the rain to stop by 7, then get colder for a couple hours (down to 38) then come back up to 43 or so. With that in mind, my wardrobe consisted of 2 technical shirts, my [...]
Read More..>>This morning I headed down to the expo for the 2008 ING Georgia marathon at the Georgia Dome. (The location was changed last week after a tornado hit the original venue.) Getting there by train is no problem, and probably a lot easier than driving.I headed down relatively early, since there were some speakers at [...]
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