So I'm tapering.  Also, I'm trying to shake a nasty cold I've managed to catch so that I'm healthy on race day.  What all this means is that I have a lot more spare time than I'm accustomed to having, and I've been haunting the sports psychol...

Why, you ask?

So many reasons.
...

I grew up way out in the boondocks of Idaho, and still have a soft spot for expressions like "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."  And when I first heard runners use the expression "the hay is in the barn" to indicate t...

The plot thickens. 

I received a phone call yesterday afternoon at work from a nice man offering me free shoes. 
...

I have a serious dilemma, folks. 

(Warning:  this post will seem trivial and self-indulgent to non-runners, who know that the earth is warming and the economy is tanking and all kinds of shit is happening.  This is for runners, who wil...

I ran my last 22-miler before Paris up on Leif today.  Finished in 3:09, cruising what felt pretty easily the whole way, in intermittent rain and hail and a whole lot of mud.  The hay isn't quite all in the barn yet, but it's stacking up nice...