Thank you!  I’m just $20 away from raising $375 for the Komen Foundation!  If you have a bit of spare cash, please consider donating to this great cause.
The Dallas Rock-n-Roll half marathon is just about 2 weeks away!  I’m excited but really nervous, I thought that signing up for a half in late March would [...]

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We’re closing in on Dec. 31, 2010… Can you believe that?!  Although there are much better reasons to make a charitable donation than a year-end tax break, if that’s what motivates you… then, by all means, consider this plea.  I’m running the 2011 Dallas Rock-n-Roll half marathon, which benefits the Susan G. Komen Foundation, in [...]

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This is the first year in, maybe, 7 years that I haven’t gotten it together to make my own holiday cards and get them sent in time for a Christmas delivery.  It’s not that I didn’t want to make my own, I was busy (more on that later).  So, I’m going to use some of [...]

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I run my first ever marathon this Sunday morning and will be away from this space for a few days.  Please, wish me luck, strong legs, and a good hip on Sunday morning.  I think I’m ready, but good heavens this is a big scary thing I decided to do.

“Jogging” in Emanuel Leanza’s Flickr Stream.
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Racing to the finish at the VA Beach Half Marathon

Oh how I came down with a cold this week.  Ever since we got back from San Francisco I’ve been feeling a bit off.  Friday (of course) it hit me hard.  I slept for about 19 hours on Saturday and another 17 on Sunday.  It was [...]

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I finished my first half marathon in 2 hours, 12 minutes, and 16 seconds on Sunday. One year ago Saturday I ran my first race ever.  I didn’t plan this, to one year later meet a major goal, but the symmetry is… serendipitous?  While writing a postcard to a friend who ran that race with [...]

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Off to run my first half-marathon this weekend!  Wish me luck.  I’ll be back in this space on Tuesday with a full report from the race and a few stationery stores I hope to visit.  For now, we’re back to poetry on Fridays.  Enjoy the long weekend.

“Vancouver Sun Run 2007” from Kris Krug’s Flickr stream.
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Trailer for The Other City.
Once again, I am participating in AIDS Walk Washington and, once again, I’m asking you to donate a few dollars to this cause.  This 5k run and walk benefits Whitman Walker Clinic, a non-profit organization that offers medical and dental care, addiction counseling, free HIV/AIDS tests, legal services, AIDS education, and [...]

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*with 11 other awesome, crazy people

We finished the American Odyssey Relay in 32 hours and 30 minutes– slightly better than I’d anticipated.  We averaged right at a 10 min mile over 202 miles and some pretty legit changes in elevation.  I did it.  I didn’t think I could but I did– we did.
My team, Shelby’s [...]

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Way back in October, when I ran the Marine Corps 10k, I came across a booth for the American Odyssey Relay.  I think the sign said something like “run through America’s Civil War history.”  They had me at Antietam.
A week ago I thought it’d be the running that scared me.  Not any more.  I ran [...]

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