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24 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The road that lies ahead

The road that lies ahead

Just in case you weren’t sick of pre-race blog posts yet, here’s one more.

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23 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Goodbye, hot Texas. Hello, 60-degree California!

Goodbye, hot Texas. Hello, 60-degree California!

For one last time this summer, we’re on the road again. In more ways than one.

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22 July 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Big D Texas Half Marathon

Big D Texas Half Marathon

For my third race of the season, I headed up to the land of big hairdos and other regrettable Texas stereotypes. And for the first time, I had a couple of running groupies along with me.

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22 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Armadillo Dash Half Marathon

Armadillo Dash Half Marathon

For my second half marathon, I kept it local.

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22 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Austin Half Marathon

Austin Half Marathon

What did you do for Valentine’s Day? I took my wife out to dinner and then made her get up at 5 a.m. so I could go running around with 18,000 strangers.

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18 July 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Meet Lois, the biggest non-odorous tease in Houston

Meet Lois, the biggest non-odorous tease in Houston

You say there’s a giant flower that smells like death itself? Ooooh, let’s all pile in the car and go see it!

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16 July 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Hooray wedding!

Hooray wedding!

The Wife and I head back to Texas for my brother’s wedding. And a run-in with the least qualified priest in the history of organized religion.

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15 July 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Baltimore chop

Baltimore chop

We head east to attend the wedding of a friend and discover a disturbing lack of fast food, roving bands of junior high bikers and the world’s most ridiculously priced lump of crustacean muscles.

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