Ramblings From The Road

The ramblings of a rambling runner rambling about running and rambling.

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Now What?

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And then, in a slow, sauntering flash-bang, it was two thousand and thirteen. Damn. Now what? I’ve got no plan.  I’m not training for anything.  I’ve got no goals.  I have absolutely nothing specific I want to accomplish.  I don’t even know where this post is going to end up, but it’s starting here. Last […]

Man, I haven’t posted a thing since I moved to the new site.  Said migration coincided with a series of unfortunate events, which isn’t to say I couldn’t have sat on the couch and written something brilliant, or at least moderately amusing, but it really put me in a bad mood for weeks on end […]

I’ve Moved!

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In so many ways. First, my wife and I, who had originally planned to stay in Arizona through April, when she’s taking a trip to Europe with her mom and brother, decided last week that it was time to change that plan1, and rolled a few hundred miles west to Santee, California.  We got settled […]

Happy New Year! No, I’m not Chinese, or even a true Western Buddhist or anything of the like, but I’ve always had a bit of a thing for the Chinese Zodiac.  Maybe because I’m the only sign that doesn’t have clear signs of life1.  I am a dragon.  龍.  (One of the few Han characters […]

This probably isn’t going to be the greatest reflection on my 2011 goals, but let’s just get down to it.  The year is over.  And then some.  And I haven’t made any “resolutions” save for a resolution not to make any year-based goals for 2012.  So, before we get to far in to 2012, I’m […]

Random Thoughts

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Sometimes I think.  Sometimes those thoughts get too unwieldy to finish.  Even for a blog of self-professed rambling.  So I will sum up. Latkes are yummy.  Especially when you swap up ingredients based on what you have on hand.  I followed my friend Deb’s recipe but swapped out red potatoes 1 and shallots instead of […]

Hangin’ on the corner of 52nd and Broadway cars passin’ by but none of them seem to go my way… New York City; well I wish I was on a highway back to Olympia… This past weekend was the forty first running of the New York City Marathon.  Geoffrey Mutai, Emmanuel Mutai, and Tsegaye Kebede […]

This probably isn’t going to be the greatest reflection on my 2011 goals, but let’s just get down to it. Mileage – Holy breaking the consistency, Batman!  After nine solid months consistently above my targeted minimum 104.131456 targeted average for the 2011 kilometer challenge, the taper and recovery of my first marathon in over a year […]

Dig in to any subculture enough, and you’ll find the fanatics.  They come in different flavors – the statistics fanatics, the novelty fanatics, the linguistic fanatics, whatever.  You find them in academic circles, sci-fi and fantasy fan groups that border on cults, actual real life cults, music fans of every genre, professional sports fans, and […]

… and June, July, and August, too. So I slacked a bit on keeping track of goals through the summer.  The first weekend of October seemed like as good a time as any to get back on the goal-seeking pony, so let’s see what’s up with my 2011 goals, eh? Mileage – The first five […]