Let me introduce myself
In programming, it’s common to have one’s first program print “hello, world.” I’m not quite sure what the running equivalent of that is - maybe “hello, shoes?” In any event, hello. This page is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while, and things are finally moving along to a point where I feel comfortable finally starting to write, to share my journey, and to talk running stuff. Well, to talk running stuff in blog form - anyone who knows me knows I’m happy to talk running all the time. But I want to share my highs and lows, my successes and failures, and the what goes into being a marathoner. I can talk origin stuff later (that’ll make for a wonderful post!), but the short version is I started running about 14 years ago as I found myself getting older and not really happy with the shape I was in at the time. What started as a 4 mile walk/run/slog grew into my first half marathon 6 months later, and then into a lifetime of putting one foot in front of the other, literally an...