Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Last Thursday and Friday I worked at the Garmin booth in the Rock N Roll Seattle Marathon expo. We sold a lot of the new Garmin Forerunner 310XT watches, which are (in short) a replacement for the Forerunner 305 only way cooler. The new watch is  more comfortable, with a slimmer design, and less hard […]

Today I lost my phone, which coincidentally, was seven days after I told a friend that I “feel way too dependent on my cell phone, especially now that I get email and Facebook on it.” This whole situation is just like that movie The Ring. Only instead of some crazy lady coming out of a […]

Today is two weeks since my doc told me to be on crutches for two weeks, so I started walking. No pain! So I’m getting back on the horse, and in a few weeks I should be rockin’ out with the big boys again. It’s also two weeks since I brewed some tea and started […]

Crutches are the devil. Well, maybe they’re better than the alternative of hopping my way around town, but they’re certainly no substitute for the use of my left leg. With crutches, you can’t carry anything. For instance, if I make a sandwich for lunch, I either eat it standing like a flamingo, or else I […]

The last couple weeks have been pretty quiet on my blog. I didn’t even write a full race report for Austin. Partly that’s because I read Ethan Brown’s race report and thought it was well written and pretty much covered my race as well. What Ethan didn’t talk about in his race report is how […]

After the lynch mob started their march to my house in Seattle I decided I’d better high tail it out of there and let things cool off a bit. Off to Oklahoma City for the weekend! Now, I have never been to Oklahoma, which is good because it means nobody here wants me dead, but […]

Usually when I go more than a week without posting anything it’s because I’m either travelling without internet, or just so busy that I don’t have the the time or energy to write anything. Not this time, I’ve had plenty of time, just no muse. I did a talk last week with Raise The Bar, […]

There’s a group of students that frequents the track on a similar schedule to my own. They normally walk the outer lanes in pairs and a few of them have faculty chaperones. I run by and they wave, I wave back, we make funny faces at each other as I pass, exchange a “hello!” or […]

Things are heating up in Seattle, which means it’s time for shutoff valves to stop working on our furnaces. See, in the middle of winter is when the furnace stops working, and when it’s 70 outside, that’s when the heater decides not to turn off anymore – which is exactly what is happening. My parent’s […]

Today a cyclist rode by and said, “You’re on the wrong side of the path, moron.” Which is pretty ridiculous, I mean, look at what I was wearing! Would a moron have this kind of fashion sense? I should explain why I run on the left. When I’m running on the Burke Gilman Trail by […]