Ramblings From The Road

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

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Yeah, we left Utah three weeks ago and settled in to Mesquite, NV for the winter.  But then the organizers of the Provo Halloween Half Marathon started a big push of Facebook ads1, which, coupled with a rude awakening of the cost of a weekend of Vegas parties for Halloween weekend, looked like an awesome […]

Time to catch up on some skipped race reports.  There’s a draft report from the Denver edition of the Skirt Chaser 5k that I did back in August, shortly after I started a new job, but that never got done before we headed off for a few weeks’ vacation to Egypt in September, followed by […]

I’m a bit slow on the race report this week.  The Warrior Dash came to Colorado this past weekend, August 20 and 21.  The pattern with Warrior Dash seems to be about 90 minutes outside a major metropolitan area.  In the “Denver metropolitan area,” that means Copper Mountain, a ski resort near Breckenridge that’s open […]

From the get go, this was certainly not what we expected!  Mostly in a good way. Coming to Minneapolis, we knew there was slim chance of participating in any races.  There’s a 5k and 10k this Saturday morning1, but it’s at Lake Nokomis Park, about 12 miles outside of downtown, and the whole reason we […]