An Ode to Saturday (or, Special Edition – College Football)

Did you hear that? September arrived! It’s fall, and you know what that means! College football season! New coaches. New recruits. New Conference divisions. What an exciting fall we have ahead of us! I can’t help but wax endlessly about college football, and so here is my Special Saturday edition and ode for the 2011 [...]

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Inspiration (or, A Run Through the Woods)

“Someday you will not be able to do this. Today is not that day.” —Dane Rauschenberg Recently, one of my triathlon reads posted a compilation of inspirational quotes, mostly geared toward endurance athletes. Dane Rauschenberg’s spoke to me more than most of the others. I recognize the simple truth that there are the born athletes [...]

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Money Matters (or, In a Different League)

All apologies: a technical error in being without internet for several weeks made updating quite difficult. Without further delay: Some people just don’t get it. Some people can’t see past their own existence. Some people are so consumed by money that they are ignorant of the greater world. And then there are a few players [...]

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Love of the Team (or, Bring Back the Bad Boys)

I don’t follow many professional sports (college is a bigger interest for me), but I do like the NBA. And why wouldn’t I? I grew up in Michigan in the 1980s… the era of the Bad Boys. Like many professional teams, the outfit has had its ups and downs. Throughout the better part of the [...]

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On Turning 30 (or, Starting Right)

Had  you asked me 10 years ago to describe what my life would be at age 30, I don’t think I could have done it. I don’t think I looked very far past Friday nights back then. And I certainly never would have called myself a triathlete. Thirty seems to be a bench-mark year. As [...]

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