Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Nov 27, 2009, 6:53 pm
So last year at the Dallas Turkey Trot they introduced the disposable (or collectible) timing chip; this year they charged five bucks over and above the registration fee if you wanted a bib number tha...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Nov 25, 2009, 7:54 am
I was looking at postcards in a college bookstore in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I saw one that featured a picture of an Arkansas black bear, not that I’m aware of any differences between that creature...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Nov 23, 2009, 3:38 pm
The Big D races - a 5K and a 30K with a common start and finish - were about to start and I was wondering where the hell all the people were. And how many times I might wander off course if I couldnâ...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Nov 10, 2009, 3:12 pm
Two lessons learned: The Colony is a hell of a long way from Euless and the American Heroes 10K isn’t worth the drive. Before the bitchfest begins, I should probably note the two pleasing aspects ...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Nov 9, 2009, 2:58 pm
I run faster carrying a football - that was my takeaway from the Marshall University Half Marathon, where I made sure to tell them that I still have four years of eligibility left. Cutting across the...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Oct 27, 2009, 7:17 am
“I don’t think this girl should be starting this close to the front of the pack - yep, I’m passing her and we’re barely to the timing mat. I hope that kid doesn’t cut me off going around th...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Oct 26, 2009, 9:43 am
It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it wasn’t night yet - it was a little past three in the afternoon - and it wasn’t that dark, just kind of gray and sporadically drizzling. Suddenly, a s...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Oct 5, 2009, 1:36 pm
Run for enough years and you'll probably become a weather connoisseur, especially if you race on a regular (i.e., every weekend, at least during the spring and fall) basis. So when a dude whose r...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Oct 4, 2009, 11:22 am
I really need to stop trusting these motel clock-radios; I woke up at 6:40, 40 minutes away from the parking lot for the State to State Half Marathon, said parking lot being itself maybe a ten-minute ...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Sep 29, 2009, 1:33 pm
Turning north on Addison Circle Drive or whatever (okay, Addison Road, it looks like) from Arapaho Road, I must have looked like hell. I felt pretty good considering I had spent the last ten minutes ...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Sep 14, 2009, 10:35 am
Late in the Suncrest Mountain Half Marathon, or whatever this chamber of horrors officially calls itself, I was running on pavement beside a woman I had been running near for maybe five miles when we ...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Sep 14, 2009, 10:32 am
I got to the Ft. Worth Running Club's Labor Day 15K a little before seven in the morning, which worked out well given that the race started at 7:30 - a half hour earlier than I was expecting. I s...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Sep 7, 2009, 12:04 pm
I got to White Rock Lake at about 6:45 for the Breakfast Bash Five-Mile; parking at White Rock in general and Winfrey Point in particular has become a controversial topic in recent months and I wanted...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Aug 24, 2009, 7:49 am
I was driving along New Circle Road in Lexington, Kentucky, after running in the Just Cause 5K. I was on an endorphin high, I guess; at any rate I was too relaxed to be driving. I looked to the left...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Aug 17, 2009, 7:38 am
I ran this race, I don’t even know what it’s called - Larger than Life 5K, Lust for Life 5K, something like that. Okay - it’s the Life Without Limits 5K (so that's where the Elvis Run went!...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Jul 26, 2009, 1:45 pm
I screwed up the goddamn alarm again. (Digression: Bruce Springsteen used to say that his dad was always bitching about his goddamn guitar, his goddamn stereo, his goddamn records. He said that his...
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Mike A. posted an article on Racing Around - Jul 5, 2009, 12:36 pm
I pulled into the parking lot of Ada Hayden Park a little before seven in the morning on a rainy Independence Day, listening to "Achtung Baby" and thinking about failed relationships and fractured hea...
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