I spent some time this week recording a vlog episode with Heather Ann Koehn for Project Light It Up Heather is taking a 10,000 mile road trip and visiting 30 cities around the United States. She’s interviewing ordinary people who have fought…
Infographic: Get rid of Shoe Odor
Thanks to Richard Kallis and the folks at AboutBoot for this helpful information: Get Rid of Shoe Odor by AboutBoot It is no secret that running shoes smell. Are you trying by every means possible to keep your shoes odorless and…
How to Make the Holidays Suck a Little Less
My daughter Sara had just celebrated her first Christmas and I had taken some time off work for the holidays. A couple days after Christmas, I went for a run. When I finished, I looked at my phone and saw a…
New Book: Running with Sara
My second book, Running with Sara is officially published. This one was a lot more fun to write than the first one since my eleven year old daughter Sara and I wrote it together. If you follow me on Twitter or…
Expo Clinics and Book Signings
I’ve written a few posts about the 2015 Outer Banks Marathon over the past week. This will be my last one in the set. It’s mainly meant to be a thank you to Race Directors Lynda Wood and Peggy Stoval for an…
Random Ramblings
I really don’t have a topic for this post. It’s just a bunch of random things that I’m cramming together because I don’t have enough content for any of them to warrant their own posts: First, thanks to my friend Cass for writing…
Saying Goodbye to a Friend
A few weeks ago I had to make one of the hardest decisions of my life. Having my Border Collie Harry put to sleep was essentially the same thing as having to say goodbye to my best friend forever. I’ve written…
A Few Things I Learned While Writing My First Book
About a month ago I published my first book. It’s called Southern Fried Running and it’s about some of the best marathons and half marathons in the Southeastern United States. I learned a lot during the writing and publishing process and I…
#GIVEPACK – The North Face and Big City Mountaineers
Around the middle of last week, I got a surprise in the mail. Through their TNFLocals program, The North Face sent my daughter Sara and I a pair of backpacks to use together on outdoor hikes and other expeditions. I wasn’t expecting…
#ClothestheLoop – The North Face
I got the email and Infographic below from The North Face Ambassadors Program this week. It’s a pretty good deal and a great cause. Since a lot of people are doing spring cleaning around this time of year, I figured I would pass…