The psychological progression of waking up early for hard workouts always entertains me.
5:30am Alarm: Roll over. Hit snooze. Tell myself I should send a cancellation text because doesn’t it look kind of gray and cold outside?
5:40am Snooze Alarm #2: Roll over. Hit snooze again. Tell myself I will get up […]
San Jose, California. Black coffee and toast.
The floral tablecloth is covered in clear plastic. Sal’s family is moving around me.
The toast will be unwelcome cargo in 25 minutes, but my gut is singing songs to me and I have to wait for my iPhone to load up new music.
I’ve cut my hair again. The […]
I want to tell you about how yesterday my furnace broke and the house was 49 degrees when I woke up. I want to tell you how I had to wait all day long for the tech to show up during the window that the company gave me of "sometime today".
I’d like to share how […]
It happens to all of us at some point. An uninspired workout - a grueling, excruciating, inexplicably terrible workout. There’s no good reason for it - just no go-juice.
It’s awful.
This happened to me on Sunday morning. The longest 45 minute run of my life. Ten times longer than Friday’s 80 minute scorch-fest. Seriously. Bad.
As I […]
I am hitting what feels like a 5:50 mile pace and I think of Schramm.
I never know where the mind will go when I step outside my door and put my feet one in front of another. One second ago I was in a trance and now I am thinking of Sarah Schramm.
Why? Because I’m […]
Sal comes home. He has been gone ten days.
Ten days.
His trips do not usually keep him for that length of time.
In his absence I become a strange creature. A bachelor of sorts, hobbling together meals that would never otherwise pass for meals, leaving dishes in the sink.
Today is the usual computer work with added welcome-home […]
I’ve been writing for a long time. This blog is a baby in the grand scheme of my time spent crafting words. I looked back today and put up some of my favorite historical vignettes… Here are two links with excerpts from each.
The Retirement of My Cross Country Coach - A short piece written for […]
This morning I woke up at 5:00am, put on my cold weather running gear, and went downstairs to enjoy a pre-run coffee.
"Perfect. Everything is perfect.", I thought to myself as I sipped hot liquid Stumptown love in an oversized mug.
Then I shoved music into my pocket, strapped on the heart rate monitor, and opened the […]
At high noon I am off in every direction. The heart of me shooting skyward, the soles of me pressing down into scarred pavement, the eyes of me dead set on a hazy horizon.
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I’m going to close the running shoe poll today so if you’ve been holding off, hoping to be the dark horse, now’s the time to come charging forth.
I don’t know why, but I’m surprised that Nike is so far out in front. I shouldn’t be I guess - I wore Nikes for years and years […]
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