Fifth grade.

I was in elementary school when our gym teacher Mr Palmer made us run a timed mile around the gym.  The gym was barely the size of a tennis court, so we had to run 26 laps around a rectangle defined by four orange cones.  We split into teams of two: one person ran […]

Marmots will try anything once.  So when I was invited to be on the cover of Women’s Running Magazine March 2017 issue as last year’s DC Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon champ, I said sure.  They’d put me up for a night in Brooklyn, give me heaps of free running clothes, and an opportunity to divulge what I […]

Title: FARTing in Moab

Key words: Wussies, Arches National Park, Buster, Service Animals, Cryptomatic Soils, Scrabble, Copper Mountain

Tags: #BetterThanLeesburg #ScenicPoops

Summary: 10+ Wussies converged in Moab, UT to run the Red Hot Moab 50k/30k.  Winners all around, as (a) Daniel bested this month’s Trail Runner coverboy Joe Grant to […]

Lazy wussies discover new tricks in Canaan Valley, WV.  1) magic carpet = preferred way to ascend a sledding hill, 2) strategies for not getting feet wet include rhododendrons and Michele’s ‘monkey walk’, 3) running in snow shoes is damn hard and should be avoided at all cost.

In the 10th year of WUS, the Wussies got whacked with all kinds of surprises.  Sean moving to Colorado?  Greeley getting hitched?  Boots moving up to the Big Apple?  2016 had weddings and real estate transactions galore, expanding and consolidating the WUSsie empire.  Wussies also thrive on new blood, and it’s always a great […]