Special thanks to All Community Events for hooking me up with a free entry into the 2016 Country Sole Half Marathon. Cool looking race hoodie… check. Country Music concert… check. Gold Belt Buckle Medal… check. Biscuits and Gravy… check. Beer… check.…
It’s been over a week since I finished the Run Crazy Horse Half Marathon. I still can’t stop thinking about what an awesome experience it was. In fact, I have so many good things to say about this race that I’m not even sure where…
I didn’t run the Rock n Roll Chicago Half Marathon this year. I opted to run the 10K course instead. Regular readers will remember my post from last year where I called out the race organizers for putting together a shoddy event that didn’t…
I was expecting to finish the day in pain. I looked at the elevation chart for the Mad Half Marathon and saw two giant hills. Not only that, but less than 24 hours earlier, I ran the Old Port Half Marathon in Portland,…
Ten years ago I ran my first marathon (Chicago, 2006). When I finished, I told a friend that I couldn’t wait to run another one. She suggested Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. Unfortunately, the 2007 race was on a day that…
After scaling a bunch of 6 and 7 foot walls, carrying 5 gallon bucket filled with pea gravel up a steep muddy hill, climbing 25 foot high rope ladders, crawling under barbed wire and swinging across a 20 foot long set of…
For anyone who ran the Buffalo Marathon a few weeks ago or might be considering running it in the future, a few runners and I recently spent some time talking about our experiences at this year’s race – what we…
Sometimes Mother Nature doesn’t like to cooperate with race directors. It’s unfortunate when this happens, but when it does, it presents an opportunity for them to either make adjustments to their course and help runners finish successfully or do nothing and deal…
I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple weeks but man I’ve been busy…. On April 30th, I ran the Frankfort Half Marathon which is a small race in the South Chicago Suburbs. I’m not going to write a big…
A few years ago I entered a 5 mile race on Halloween with a friend. I didn’t tell her I was going to do this, but the night before the race I went to a costume store and bought a cheap blonde…