The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School track team filed off the cheese bus into an overcast Saturday morning at Middleburg High School. The heat wave that had singed DC for much of early May had finally lifted, and the 70-degree temperatures felt chilly enough to keep our vinyl blue-and-gold track suits on.

‘Damn!’ David exclaimed as […]

Question:  Should I be freaked out about Lyme disease?

Answer: (a) It depends on where you live.  In the 1990s there wasn’t much Lyme reported in Virginia.  But in the last decade Lyme has been spreading throughout the Northeastern US, and increasingly into Virginia and parts of West Virginia (a trend that is only likely […]

[Note – this is a blog written by Aaron.  I pilfered it directly from Aaron’s secret blog]

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“You HAVE to go to a doctor!”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“Seriously… I’ll make an appointment for you. Your fever was 101 yesterday, and it’s 102 today. A 102 fever is a legitimate, doctor-worthy fever.”

“Alright.”

Martha was […]

When Aaron and I started running together, it became clear that we would never get anywhere if I kept stopping every few minutes to look at birds.  But it seemed implausible that we would spend all those hundred of hours running in the woods and never stop to appreciate the beautiful and varied avian fauna that […]

Bull Run 50 miler

Manassas, VA

April 12, 2014

*warning: this report contains graphic descriptions of bodily fluids*

‘I had calculated that our team could win even if we all had cruddy days,’ I told my teammate Robin as we strolled into the Do Loop around mile 30 of the Bull Run Run.  ‘But […]