Friday Fun: Hey, how you doin’?

I was reminded this week of a game that I used to play with my friend Steve Harper.
Steve is an extremely friendly guy – the nicest guy that you’ll ever meet most likely. He liked to say “hi” to people when he’d run by them. We traveled a lot together and when we’d run, [...]

Friday Fun: Running of the. . . nudes?

Alright, so this post isn’t actually about running. I admit it. It’s been a strange holiday week with the Fourth of July plunked right in the middle. I even posted a “Friday Fun” section on Wednesday, not realizing that it was . . . Wednesday.
In any case, my news aggregator service often picks up [...]

Friday Fun: Ten surprises and activities for your next 40 mile run

I spent the day yesterday out running 40 miles. The run itself is a story that can be told late. But in the mean-time, here are some things that I found can keep your mind occupied for such a long time and a few surprises as well.
Activity #1 – Try to calculate the amount of [...]

Friday Fun: What’s the worst that can happen?

I have been thinking a lot about the pre-race jitters that I wrote about two days ago. I made a comment in that post about the fact that much of the anxiety about races comes from worrying too much about things that can go wrong – things that are out of your control. We really [...]

Friday Fun: Champions of Everything, Everywhere II

[This story is dedicated to my friend Coach Dean Hebert who inspires so many runners in the Phoenix area and has been my personal mentor and inspiration. The Lake Tahoe Relay will be held this year on June 9th 2007, but I will be running the Rock N Roll Marathon the weekend before and unable [...]

Friday Fun: Photo of the month May 2007

I love capturing the scene from races in photographs and I have thousands of images from marathons around the world. I thought that I might try posting a favorite image here and there that would not otherwise make it into one of my columns. Below is one of my favorite new images.
The image below was [...]

Friday Fun: What’s on the radio?

I love the way music can set the mood and stimulate us while we’re running at times. I’m not a big fan of running with music in many circumstances, but a rainy Thursday evening run is certainly one of those times that I use it to get by.
Last night I was wearing my iPod Shuffle, [...]