Image via Wikipedia I spent the past 3 day in Boston on a short vacation with my family, and surprisingly, the one thing that I didn’t do at all was run. This trip was about having fun with my wife and kids, and exploring a city that has been a part of my life since […]
Fun With the Family: Camping in Glen, NH
June 17, 2010 By 5 Comments
I’m needing to take a break from my recent flurry of shoe-related posts, so I decided to share a bit from my personal life – hope you’ll indulge me. If nothing else, this post will prove that I do in fact do other things than run, tweet, and write about shoes! One of the great […]
Chasing School Buses: An Unexpected Benefit of Being a Running Dad
May 13, 2010 By 4 Comments
Image via Wikipedia I had no intention of writing a second post this soon after the one I wrote this morning, but sometimes you’ve got a story that needs to be told. On the first day of my summer break, I had the pleasure of going for a nice long walk with my wife, daughter, […]
Transition, Or What I Plan To Do On My Summer Vacation
May 13, 2010 By 4 Comments
Image by Warm ‘n Fuzzy via Flickr I sit here writing this post early in the morning on the first official day of my summer break. Although I still have some commitments to fulfill and loose ends to tie up at work, my major responsibilities were completed when I submitted my Spring semester grades and […]
New Member of the Runblogger Family: Baby Ben has Arrived!
April 4, 2010 By 10 Comments
I wanted to take a quick break from running related posts to alert you to some great news in the Runblogger family – baby Ben has arrived! What follows is an excerpt from a post I just wrote (on a new blog called Daddy Duty) about the events of the past few days. “I didn’t […]
Letter to Santa From My Son: – Why I Love My Kids
December 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Image via Wikipedia Below is a letter that my son wrote to Santa Claus that was published in our local newspaper this morning – made my day! Dear Santa, It’s my birthday! I am 6 years old. I am a good big brother beause I am caring to my sister. I help my mom clean […]
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward – The Benefits of Taking a Break
November 30, 2009 By 4 Comments
Image by She Who Shall Not Be Named via Flickr Thanksgiving break could not have come at a better time for me. While things have been going relatively smoothly for me at work this semester, the end of November is right about the time when both faculty (myself included) and students begin to feel burned […]
Confessions of a Running Shoe Polygamist
November 20, 2009 By 11 Comments
Image via Wikipedia This is a post about love, passion, and the deep and often complex relationships that we runners develop with … our shoes. These relationships come in many forms – some of us are monogamous, choosing a single shoe and sticking with it through the years despite updates and new models. Some of […]
Coping With Information Overload in the On-Line World
November 15, 2009 By 2 Comments
Image by luc legay via Flickr Let me state at the outset that what follows in this post was inspired by Joel (aka Ted) R. – your Dailymile post this morning was my impetus to write this, and hopefully it will help those who, like us, are trying to navigate through a life filled with […]
Who Is Runblogger?: A Post About Me
November 8, 2009 By 25 Comments
It’s taken me a long time to get around to writing this post. When I first started this blog in January of 2009, I did it anonymously, and I’m not really sure why anymore (I guess the on-line world was new and scary to me, and I was working through how I would maintain privacy). […]
Setting Goals: Running through the Winter
November 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
One of the things that I like about doing a blog is that I can write things down and hold myself accountable for them. With that in mind, I’m writing this post to set out my goals for the winter and beyond. In past years, the winter has been a time of regression for both […]
Brooks I.D. – Application Accepted, Inspiring Daily through Running in 2010!
November 4, 2009 By 18 Comments
I received an e-mail yesterday informing me that my application to become a member of the Brooks I.D. program for 2010 has been accepted! I’m really excited about this for a number of reasons, which I’ll get to in a bit, but I thought I’d first let you in on what this program is all […]
Race Report: Manchester City Marathon 2009
November 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When I first signed up to run both the Hartford and Manchester City Marathons this Fall, I was under the mistaken impression that there would be four weeks between them. From past marathon experience, I knew that it takes me about that much time to fully recover from the 26.2 mile race effort, and even […]
Running for Weight Loss – Stories of Personal Transformation
October 25, 2009 By 12 Comments
We all have our reasons for why we started to run. For some of us, it’s the personal challenge of trying to accomplish a goal as seemingly impossible as completing a chosen race, whether it be as small scale as a local 5k or as large scale as a marathon. For some of us, the […]
Sherpa John and The Run Across New Hampshire
October 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I posted a story a few weeks ago about a NH ultrarunner, Sherpa John (check out his blog here), who was planning to run his second annual Run Across New Hampshire from the westernmost point of the state at the VT border near Brattleboro to the easternmost point in Odiorne State Park in Rye (on […]
