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 […]

3rd WUS Beer Mile

February 25, 2014 (Bootsie’s 30th birthday)

Chevy Chase, MD

The 3rd WUS Beer Mile was held in honor of Boots’s 30th birthday.  The National Cathedral cops had kicked WUSsies off the grounds for their Thursday night PUSH group (I think they objected to Tom C’s chains workout).  So we opted for […]

Frisco, CO

February 12 – 16, 2014

You know we had a pretty fine ski trip to Colorado when Aaron and I spent our last hour in the Denver airport searching Frisco condos on Zillow.  No, we can’t really afford a 4th house — we ain’t no Kerry Owens, at least not until ActivTrax hits […]