I wrote last week (or was it two, or three weeks ago?) about typical conversations runners find themselves in when discussing their running to people who are, we'll say, less educated about the sport of running.  In this chapter, I'll pull out ano...

Part I: Running = Marathoning

Ok, runners, let’s face it: our sport is complicated.  Not the running part, not the workouts even, but the idea of it.  The fact that 99.9% of us do it for absolutely no financial compensation and that a...

The subtlety the waitresses pull of being surprised to see me and my friends at the exact same time every week is not lost on me. In fact, it's great. This mandatory Tuesday night treat has become expected among our small crew of competitive runner...

Written on 2/18/08 - This was such a great event! The San Diego weather was in FULL cooperation and I've got a sunburn to prove it! It seemed like the athletes had a good time for the most part, there were some great races, highlighted by the close f...

San Diego, CA - Feb. 14th, 2008 - Has it already been a year? With images (and video) of the Boulder meet still fresh in my mind, sea level flats of San Diego stand in stark contrast to the muddy high altitude course. I am certain the course will ser...

This weekend, the University of Washington will host their second in a series of indoor track meets. After the relatively low-key Preview of two weekends ago, this meet usually brings out the big guns. We plan on filming at least the fast heats and p...

Nothing motivates me more to write a blog than having had a huge dinner and finishing off a bottle o' cab. So I sit and ponder what I could possibly write about at the end of the first month of our Olympic year.
The Olympics. Long have I defended...

I have a good friend that once told me: "Things tend to turn out the way you want them to, just not the way you expect them to." Man, if I had a dime for each thing that didn't turn out the way I wanted it to!
Yet, in retrospect, it was a fairly ...

It's taken a while, all afternoon and evening really, to fully understand the gravity of the announcement I heard today at the Bowerman Building at the University of Oregon: that the 2009 and 2011 National Championships as well as the 2012 Olympic ...

Once again I am assigned the unfortunate task of packing a weekend's supply of clothing, toiletries, video equipment and my laptop to venture to the sunnier regions of the U.S. to cover a major running event.  Poor me.  Ah yes, the sunny ...