Rome is a ghost town in August.  From about the 12th until the end of the month everyone gets out of town leaving it, well, perfect!  I can run by many of the monuments on the hill and not see anyone - A moment I crave all year long.  Wh...

 


   
         
 

After a week of nightmares chock-full-of-self-doubt and cryptic Freudian denotations I finally finished my first 5k in 365 days...alive!  The Race for the Cure in Rome had 40,000 participants this year and I spent at least as many seconds dre...

I remember watching our black lab sleep when I was a kid and giggling when her legs would twitch in the midst of some elaborate dog dream.  She was chasing a pheasant or mailman or playing with us kids or swimming in the stream near our house...

I'm moving out of my apartment in a few weeks to go and live elsewhere and have decided to record the memory of my room with a qvtr movie....It's always nice to change it up but now I'll never forget my surroundings with this digita...

I came to Rome in 2003 after some time in Portland.  I never once got sick of the rain when I lived there and I can't explain why.  I used to love going out in the rain to go for a run...(it always made me feel like a bit of a ...

I was looking through the Harvard Gazette News Archives (eh eh eh...aka surfing the internet and stumbled on) when I found an article that added supporting evidence to my theory that runners are pretty amazing (aka superior).  I know tha...

The blog area of runnerspace has been a bit stagnant as of late!  My guess is that this is a good thing: means everyone is out racing instead of sitting in front of the computer. :D

I've got my new team and lots of running fo...

I hate doctors. I'm terrified of them*. Wait: I hate to go to the doctor. A dentist, I can handle: I look forward to going to the dentist for an entire week beforehand just so that I can get shiny, happy teeth. But a doctor, at best, can tell you t...

Got a new team: Running Club Futura.

This will provide me with the opportunity to meet some new training buddies, get workout feedback, and travel to races. It sounds like they are sponsored by a well known radio station that pays for all of the fee...