On The Beast :)

“Done is better than perfect.”

Scott Allen

Practice Makes Perfect

Editor’s note: This is about Grindstone! Better late than never, I suppose.

Those who can remember my only previous race report about a successful 100 Miler may remember the vague sense of “obligation” that permeated my report, and the lack of “fun” I seemed to have had. And that was after an “easy” (no such thing!) 100, Vermont. [Read more...]

Indian Summer

Along the line of smoky hills
The crimson forest stands,
And all the day the blue-jay calls
Throughout the autumn lands.

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For Those without Power

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d have frozen to death.

Mark Twain

Woohoo!

“Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words”

~ Forrest
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On Grindstone

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

Ryunosuke Satoro

The Headlamp Run

“I can’t find my off button”.

~ Loopy

On Running All Night

“The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Me, Myself & Irene

“It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.”

` Charles Caleb Colton

On the Passing of John Kelley

In the obituary that appeared in The Day, it was mentioned that upon the occasion of his induction into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in Utica, N.Y., in 2002, John Kelley read from “The Song of the Ungirt Runners” [Read more...]