I have some of my best ideas while running. (Something to do with more oxygen to the brain, I suppose.) This weekend I remembered a story from one of my first marathons, although this time it was in the aftermath of a race. I was in the 1984 Honolulu Marathon. Two nights before, there was
I had some workmen at my house last week. A venerable ash tree by the garage had been attacked by the dreaded ash borer and had to be removed before it died completely and fell onto the roof. But that’s another story. When they came into my house at the end of the job to
I run as a sport, and I have since 1980. I can’t really explain why, except to say it fills a need in my life. What I’ve discovered about running is its individuality — there are many different reasons to run. Yes, it’s fun to win awards, but most of the time meeting individual goals, from
How complicated can the sport of running get? For diehards, pretty darn complicated! I’ve seen magazine articles on how to train, what to eat, what to wear, even how to tie shoelaces (a subject that can be surprisingly detailed if one is seeking just the right amount of pressure on one’s metatarsal bones). But one
Have you ever heard of Juli Windsor? She finished her first Boston Marathon in 2014. And she’s three feet nine inches tall. She and a friend a little bit taller, John Young, were in the in the 2013 Boston Marathon. You know, the year of the bombing, and they were halted a half mile short
