It's 7 a.m. It is still dark and just above freezing. I'm standing in the middle of a four-lane street wearing a trash bag. It is pouring...

and a quest for large mimosas The 10am 5K start felt far from resolutory. Dawn would have impressed. Shivering in the New Year’s frost at...

Now available on Amazon Books My first book is about running. Running from not being able to run to running a marathon. I didn't write it...

A costumed race unmasked It's one of those crazy costume races held near Halloween. I'm dressed as a vintage pilot, sans leather jacket,...

I wrote a book. Then I self-published the book. These are two very different things, with few crossover skills. The process took much...

It overwhelmed me for a moment while standing in the middle of the Virginia Beach Convention Center. That subtle mix of anxiety and...

It was the simplest expression of how the meaning of running changes and evolves through your life I had ever heard. And it brought one...

I had never run a step beyond 20 miles. That was my limit. That was the longest of my long runs. Like many first-time marathoners, I had...

I knew my life had changed when the young man in the turkey suit onesie whooshed past. I was excited to be running in my very first road...

Global Running Day felt like a neighborhood run and I'm glad. My wife and I joined a hundred or so runners for a rainy jaunt along our...

As the COVID-19 Crisis spread across the US, it left both runners and running race organizers scrambling to unriddle the mystery of how...