2014 was my third year in a row doing the Rock n Roll Chicago Half Marathon…. which made this the first time I’ve done the same race more than twice. And to be honest, during the last few weeks leading up…
Running In Africa (Part 4)
You can find part 1 here…. You can find part 2 here…. You can find part 3 here…. Now that I spent the first few posts talking about traveling and sightseeing, this one will actually be about running (it’s also…
Running In Africa (Part 3)
You can find part 1 here…. You can find part 2 here…. Besides having an opportunity to check out some of the wildlife in Tanzania, I also had an opportunity to check out Moshi and meet some of the locals.…
Running in Africa (Part 2)
You can find part 1 here…. After traveling for almost 24 hours straight and finally making it to my hotel room in Moshi, Tanzania, I pretty much flopped into my bed and fell fast asleep. I think the mattress was…
Running in Africa (Part 1)
In 2009, I had done a few full and half marathons and was starting to get fairly decent finishing times and I decided to take a crack at running a race overseas. At the time I was working for a global…
Longhorns, Lightning, and a Camaro…. The Oklahoma City Memorial Half Marathon
A few years back, I did a CRM implementation for a large retail company that had a call center in Norman Oklahoma, which is about a half hour south of Oklahoma City. I traveled there for a couple weeks during…
How to run two half marathons in two different states in the same day (Part 3)
You can find part 1 here…. You can find part 2 here…. So I had registered for races in Las Vegas, NV and Las Cruces, NM, put together (and followed) a pretty solid training plan and had a plan for getting to both…
How to run two half marathons in two different states in the same day (Part 2)
You can find part 1 here…. After I decided on my goal of running half marathons in Las Cruces, NM and Las Vegas in the same day, the next two things I needed to figure out were how I was…
How to run two half marathons in two different states in the same day (Part 1)
The Las Vegas Marathon has been around since the late 1960s. The route, location, start time, race directors, etc… have all changed numerous times over the years and the race has always gotten mixed reviews. A few years ago though,…
Mayors Midnight Sun Half Marathon, Anchorage AK, June 21st, 2014
For the last several years I’ve been working on a goal of finishing a half marathon in all 50 states and a full marathon on every continent. In April I passed the halfway point for states with a race in…