“For starters, they had a shopping cart……”
For those of you who don’t know Billy that well, he may seem very quiet, but I can assure you that sometimes his still waters run pretty deep. When we are with a group of friends, he may not say a …
Category: marathon training
Billy Zumba and A Tough Half
So we are in full-on fundraising mode. We need to each have $1,250 of our $2,500 commitment by August 1st. Since we are both a little short, I was trying to come up with an idea to get us a …
Billy’s Scorecard
Billy keeps a scorecard. Isn’t that what marriage is? Nevermind. No, he keeps a running list, a number, of how many of each race distance we have done. Why, you may ask? Because he does not want me to have …
That’s Why It’s Called a “Pain” Stick
Running is dumb. Ok, it isn’t really dumb. Maybe just marathon training is dumb. In any event, it totally stinks when you have to start from the beginning, which we are doing due to my recent illness. Getting back into …
Boston Marathon 2017: Happy for the runners, glad I am not one of them!
Ahhh – Patriots’ Day in MA. A state holiday. One of those weird holidays where some things are open, some aren’t, but the traffic is light and the office is quiet. But the most important thing about today is that …
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Spring Running in New England: Determining the Date You Can Put Away Your Under Armour (HINT: Not Today!)
Spring in New England. Met my friend on Friday morning for a run – it was 24 degrees out and we were too cold to take a selfie. Went out on Saturday morning and it was 45 degrees. And I …