What is up with people honking their car horns at me when I’m running? I’m not running in the middle of the road (I’m on the sidewalk), so I’m definitely not in the way. I’m running fully clothed, no holes in my shirts/shorts. I don’t know enough people around here that it’s just people giving […]

Surgery is at 8 am tomorrow, so I’m doing everything I can to keep my mind off of it. I’ve been doing laundry, cleaning up the house, reading a book, watching television, and blogging to avoid all thoughts of eye-related things.  I’ve gotten pretty darn good at compartmentalizing… although a shrink might call it “denial” […]

The Country Music Half Marathon is scheduled for April 26, 2008. Lots of folks from work are running it, as well as some friends from outside the office. I had been planning on running it right up until I screwed up my knee during the Disney Marathon. It’s been 5 weeks since then, so I’m […]

8) “Race Official — Do Not Pass” 7) “DLF > DNF >> DNS”  (Dead Last Finish is Greater than Did Not Finish which Greatly Trumps Did Not Start) 6) “Who moved the finish line?” 5) “Pray for my brother in Iraq” – great way to get lots of folks praying and no longer thinking […]

10)  Realizing that all those crazy things that I told myself along the route were helping - promises for shoe shopping, chanting a mantra from a friend, cheers from coworkers, etc. 9) Drawing on my little brothers with Sharpies before the race. 8) Location – seeing Disney characters all along the route & running […]

To fully appreciate what I’m about to delve into, you need to know that the Walt Disney World Marathon started at 6 am. Runners had to be there by 4 am. I’m guessing that means that volunteers had to be there no later than 2 am. Having been a marathon volunteer before, I know that […]

The marathon is over – hooray!! While I had severe knee problems and came in much slower than anticipated, I finished the marathon. I didn’t really expect to have anywhere near the problems that I did, and would have been really disappointed in my time, but I now realize just how big of an accomplishment […]

We’ll be flying out to Orlando tomorrow morning to get ready for the marathon. It’s been a long road of training and knee pain, but I’m looking forward to it if for nothing else but to get it over with. I’m going to give it my best shot with my goal being just to finish. […]

The countdown has made it to just one day and a few hours… I can’t decide if I’m terrified or excited. I’m ready to run the race just to be done with it at this point – it will be good for it to be over. On the other hand, though, I can’t stop thinking […]