There she goes, my beautiful world
I’ve had a good few months of running; really a good year so far. However, I’ve been waffling on my goals. I haven’t decided whether this is the year for my first marathon. One option is the Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon in October, the only marathon local to the Capital Region. There are full marathon and half marathon options for the Mohawk-Hudson. On August first the registration fee increases.
My minor goal is a total of 2,024km in … Read the rest
Somewhere around the beginning of the year one of my running buddies told me that she had chosen a challenge for herself: to run twenty-three races in 2023. Twenty-three sounded like a lot of races (in 2022 I ran eleven organized races. See https://splicer.com/2022/12/31/2022-road-running-review/) but after giving it a little consideration I decided to accept the challenge that she hadn’t explicitly thrown at my feet.
After all, 23 races might be … Read the rest
I used to make it a point to write a post for America’s Independence Day. It was an exercise in affirming what it means to me to live in America. I’ve let that go over the past few years for a variety of reasons. I just haven’t been expressing myself in writing so much because discourse itself feels broken in this so-called post-truth era. But I’ve been thinking about it for a few days and I do have something to … Read the rest