Rock n’ Running in Los Angeles
Will Ferrell did it in just over 2 hours, the winner, Fernando Cabada, in 1 hour 4 minutes 56 seconds and I was somewhere in between in the Los Angeles Rock n’ Roll (RnR) Half Marathon, aptly themed as...
View ArticleGamblers, Con artists, Comedians, Hookers…and a few (thousand) Runners
While California was haunted by a storm, I escaped the rain only to find myself on the Las Vegas Strip on a Sunday afternoon in early December at the starting line of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas...
View ArticleThe Empire Half
“You doin’ Brooklyn next?”, the guy next to me asked, a dark skinned man in his 30s, all dressed in black including a black runners hat, in the heaviest New Yorker accent I have encountered all...
View ArticleRun Van
For the first time in my running career, if one can call it that, I had legitimately made it to the front corral of an event. I had the magic color, yellow, in this case, on my bib number which granted...
View ArticleScaling Hell
Getting up at 5am to participate in a trail run up a mountain sounds like an insane idea. For some. My recent dabbling in trail running as well as having signed up for a big trail race in November,...
View ArticleBoston’s Little Brother
Qualifying for the world’s most prestigious marathon event, the Boston Marathon, is no easy feat. On the bucket list of many runners, running a BQ requires a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Ok, sweat...
View ArticleThe Hilly Lands of Marin
I stumbled out of my motel on Lombard Street in San Francisco at 6:35 in the morning. My muscles tensed up as the comfortable warmth of the motel room escaped almost immediately from my body and the...
View ArticlePerspective
I was approaching the twelve mile marker, slightly annoyed by the fact that the race organizers had decided that for the last couple of miles, the 5k, 10k and half marathon course would share the same...
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