Races and Adventures

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I have not always liked running.  Growing up in the 1970’s I used to run with my Dad around our neighborhood.  There was a circle near our house that by report was ¼ mile and we would run 6 circles or for 15 minutes that we counted off on a kitchen timer.  The scenery was not great (it was near a swamp) and overall the experience did not inspire a love for running.  [Read more…] about The Reluctant Runner

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Hey Michele is that snow I see? What began as an innocent comment would soon become the major theme of our “run” on the Wapack Trail last Saturday.

ShellyGirl and I have been training for the SweetH20 50k in Lithia Springs Georgia and were looking for one more weekend of long training runs before the race in two weeks. [Read more…] about Wapack in early Spring

I woke up early Sunday morning with that special feeling that race day will bring. Whether your passion is trails or roads there is always something special about race morning. The weather forecast during the week had predicted a beautiful day. After having worked seven days a week for the last five weeks the timing could not have been better. I was heading up to the 33rd Annual New Bedford Half Marathon. [Read more…] about New Bedford Half

Editor’s note: ALL names have been changed, including the author’s, so that the guilty parties might avoid ridicule, as well as the risk of fellow Bimblers standing WAY far away from them at gatherings, and never looking ANY of the three in the eye again. Trust me 🙂 Oh, by the way, the fourth Bimbler, the one with four legs, was, and is, utterly innocent. [Read more…] about Stone Washed Blues

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Alternatively: Me, Madonna, and Hybrid… at the Seneca Creek 50K.

So, WAY back when, IGGY had started the theme of Spring 50Ks, and I expanded her theme by listing an exhaustive compilation of spring races, from Holiday Lake in February, all the way to Pineland Farms at the end of May. Seneca Creek seemed to fit our collective Bimble sensibilities due to the “low key” nature of the race, although several griped at the lack of shirts. [Read more…] about Me, Myself, and I

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On the drive up to the Colchester Half Marathon this weekend, I realized that I hadn’t run a road race in exactly a year–since last year’s Colchester.   In some respects, it is about as close to being a trail run as a non-trail run can be.  Lots of wildlife (mostly bovine) and several sections on narrow, muddy dirt roads–snow-covered this year–keep you entertained. [Read more…] about A Beautiful Day in Colchester