“We need some more urgency,” my brother, Jamie, gently advises me. It’s 6:35 am and we are driving fast (but not fast enough I guess), but somewhat aimlessly, north through Des Moines, Iowa trying to make our way to the 7:00 am start (the Saylorville Dam) of the 2017…

It’s raining lightly outside as you emerge at 5:30 am from the small inn you are staying at in a small town in a small state. Let’s say the inn is called the Bed & Bistro, the town is Narragansett, and the state is Rhode Island. You open the back…

I have run races through wineries (Sonoma, California), Civil War battlefields (Shepherdstown, West Virginia), and through construction tunnels (Hoover Dam, Nevada). Now I can add cemeteries to the list.

Have you ever been to Minneapolis? According to my scientific poll of friends that I randomly queried, less than 10% responded in the affirmative. You, along with the nine people who answered negatively in my poll, should make a visit. Minneapolis…

There is a running life after Boston. The Newtown hills are daunting, but they seem quaint in comparison to the mountain trails of Colorado. Fortunately, the Aspen Valley Half Marathon (July 16, 2016) route wound its way between the mountains, and only ascended a couple…