[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 […]

My life does not center around running, or science, or even kitties and ponies: anyone who knows me is well aware that my world revolves around one thing: food.  Part of this is purely physiological: it is jaw-dropping to observe the difference between an underfed Martha (curled up in a ball sobbing on the floor) […]

You never know what kind of weather you’re going to get in March in DC.  The Monday before Catawba it snowed.  By the time Saturday rolled around it was sunny T-shirt weather in the 50s/60s.  There was still some slushy snow at Catawba’s higher elevations, but the weather was glorious and I actually came away […]