Something strange happened yesterday… okay, something strange happens to me everyday, so maybe this was just a normal occurrence…. who knows. Anyway, I was on The Runner’s Roundtable podcast yesterday on Talkshoe.com as one of the Race Directors of the WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL OF RACES! We are coming up on our 5th running of the event! [...]

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I was thinking that I was going to do a Tale of Two Races, but then thought that it would be too difficult to try to bear the poor performance at both races. I thought for sure that I would do better on 4/17/2010 for the Breakthrough Run for Autism. However, that was NOT the [...]

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It’s a New Race week! So that means it’s another Guess My Time, Win Crap contest. This contest however is being advertised MORE than 24hrs before the actual race! Hopefully this will increase the number of people guessing, as in at least ONE person. The race this week is Breakthrough’s Run for Autism. Breakthrough Corporation [...]

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That’s Right! By No demand what so ever, the almost tolerable “Guess My Time, Win Crap” contest is back… and it’s happening NOW! This week’s contest revolves around the Run for the Schools 5k which is being held on 04/10/2010 at the Knoxville Zoo. $2 from each entry fee goes to the Knox County school [...]

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On February 28, 2010 I had my 12 year RUNiversary, and what a strange race it turned out to be… The Whitestone 30k is a road race whose START/FINISH is at the Whitestone Inn in Paint Rock, TN. I had ran it back in 2002, but given it’s distance and date (traditionally, a Sunday) I [...]

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This is what I want to run for this year (well, considering that I am FINALLY posting it near the end of February): Date Event Distance Location 28-Feb-10 Whitestone 30k 30k Race Paint Rock, TN 28-Mar-10 Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon VOLUNTEERING Knoxville, TN 3-Apr-10 Greenways 5k 5k Race Knoxville, TN 17-Apr-10 Spring Sprint 5k Race [...]

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Or in my case: Strollers Broke! We purchase a double stroller for the kids back in 2007, which I have taken on a number of different runs with me (including the 2007 and 2008 Worldwide Half Marathon) and some family excursions. Here’s a picture of the kids in the stroller on the 3rd Creek Greenway [...]

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Yesterday (Thursday Jan 21 2010), the weather peeps said that there would be Rain and more Rain until the afternoon and then a break and then MORE rain. And sure enough, the morning time was surely rainy and so I concluded that a lunchtime run wouldn’t fit into the schedule. Plus the fact that we [...]

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“planet3rry Getting ready to do a lunchtime run… MAN it has bem a loooong time! http://tinyurl.com/yd7e58e about 2 hours ago from Tweed” From my twitter on Tuesday (1/19/2010), I was VERY excited about getting back into the Run-At-Lunch thing that I used to do, but hadn’t in MONTHS. I think sometime November, I ran ONCE [...]

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[This was written on New Year's Eve...] Our household has been without internet since September as a way to cut spending. Also at the end of September, we turned off our home phone AND our Cable. Although, we have not totally become TV free in our household, we have made that step to stop the [...]

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