I’ve Got My Cranky Pants On Again!

I just went online to register for the 2011 NY Marathon and had to lift my jaw from the floor once I saw the registration fee.  It's a whopping $196 to run this race.  Plus and $11 application fee.  No doubt that this is a premier race and frankly, one of my favorites, but over …

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From the Bowels of the Earth Emerges a Marathon Hopeful!

So imagine you are trapped in a collapsed mineral mine in Chile.   And for the sake of argument let's say you are trapped there for about 69 days until the folks above ground can drill an escape hole to get you and your 32 fellow miners out from the bowels of the earth.   What would …

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Marathon Training Starts!

The Portland Marathon is being held on October 10, 2010.  Yes, that's 10/10/10 and what a perfectly perfect day to run a marathon!  It will be my 7th marathon and takes me closer to my "10 Marathons By 50" goal. My computer crashed in April and it ate all of my saved data, including my …

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