Nat’s game

September 22, 2012

Washington, DC

‘Aaron, look!!’  I waved the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine in front of him, opened to the cartoon above.  ‘This!  This is my childhood!’  Aaron, who had spent a good hour of our last Friday evening listening to my father’s heated explanation of why Nats catcher […]

Brain Aneurysm Race for Awareness 8k

In Memory of Timothy P. Susco

Reston, Virginia

September 22, 2010

Results

With 9 minutes until gun time, I whispered in Aaron’s ear, ‘Do you think I can go pee in those bushes over there?’  After two straight weeks of trail racing, where the world is my […]

Dam Half Marathon

RJ Winter State Park, PA

September 17, 2012

Anyone who has run Alisa Springman’s Holy Cowans Gap 50k in May knows that Pennsylvania trail running is a breed of its own.  Pennyslvanians don’t seem to take much stock in switchbacks.  The Dam Half at RJ Winter State Park near Lewisburg, PA […]

Rec Hall, The Pennsylvania State University

Friday, September 14, 2012

There is a musty old shower room on the Penn State campus.  No one checks your ID.  You don’t even really need to lock up your stuff.  Situated in a dimly lit corner of Rec Hall, where the floors are stone cold and the […]

VHTRC Women’s Half Marathon

September 8, 2012

Bull Run, Manassas, VA

I began the WHM this year in mixed spirits.  On one hand, this year’s race had everything going for it.  My friend Tracy Dahl was debuting as the glorious new RD this year, guaranteeing a class A affair.   I had […]