This is not going to be one of my usual race reports.  But I will give you the mandatory information.  I ran the New Orleans Mardi Gras Marathon last Sunday and I finished.  There.  That was my race report.  The rest of the story doesn’t have much to do with racing as it does with [...]

I will save you the suspense of wondering whether I qualified for the Boston Marathon or not.  That would be a very big not.  It has taken two days to put things in perspective and  a lot of talking with friends for me to come to grips with what happened.  I still don’t have all [...]

When I woke up yesterday morning, I definitely had mixed emotions about the race.  I wanted to race, but my last run was a disaster with my legs aching.  The weather was supposed to be cooler, but there was also a chance of torrential rains.  I was curious to see what I could do, but [...]

As we were heading down the driveway this morning on our way to church, I saw a most unpleasant sight in the front yard.  Over the past 6 months we have had several armadillos tearing up our flower beds and evidently the flower bed had its revenge…… or some other creature which I couldn’t identify [...]