OK. I think I've been on the road too long.
This trip started last Saturday. I flew to Seattle, drove to Tacoma, spoke, spent the night, drove to Seattle, drove BACK to Tacoma because I forgot my hanging bag in the hotel room, drove BACK to Seattle, spent the night, drove to Bellingham, spent the night, drove BACK to Seattle - and stopped at a Wal-Mart to buy a garment bag-, spent the night, FLEW to Anchorage - which is where I am right now.
SO! I check in, pull mail, get caught up a little and then start thinking about a run. I look at my watch, it's nearly 3 PM. I want to run at 4. THEN I THINK. I hope it doesn't start getting dark while I'm out there.
WHAT A MAROON! It's June 20. I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. The sun sort of goes down at - oh - 11 PM. Too many miles in too many days.
A couple of good things, though. While in Seattle I caught up with Mark Conners - formerly of Spenco - now with BodyGlide. Mark supported me early on when I was trying to get this whole "penguin" thing going. Without his help I never could have toured in 2000 and 2001. It was great to see him again.
Of course, I am a HUGE fan of BodyGlide. My number one rule is that anything that CAN rub together WILL rub together. If they sold BodyGlide in 50 gallon drums I'd probably have one. I use it liberally on all those sensitive areas that tend to rub or blister. It's great stuff and should be in every runner's bag of tricks.
OH, yeah, I got in my run, am back at the computer, and guess what? THE SUN IS STILL OUT! Go figure.
Most of the TEAM will get in tomorrow and then it's off to the TnT Pasta Party and race.
Waddle on,
The Penguin Chronicles
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Bob Allen
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I resubscribed and made sure that I selected the "recent posts" option rather than any of the "comments" options. But, that still didn't work. The RSS feed links for the last two posts take me to the subscription page for the comments feed, not the posts feed.
Nancy
Have I missed the cholesterol and angio update? I've been wondering how you are doing.
Michael Astrosky
Hey, I was in Anchorage for the marathon as a TNT participant. You are a helluva of motivational speaker. I really enjoyed listening to you. You should record some and post them up as podcasts.
Anyway, thanks for the motivation and inspiration the night be a beautiful but tough run. The spinkling of rain wasn't necessary saturday morning but we all got through it. And just to brag I set a personal best of 4h 55m. I was extrememly happy.
thanks again.
John -- I enjoy your blogs (and your articles in Runner's World) and have subscribed to the RSS feed. However, something seems to be broken. I get the post titles and can click on any of them and get to the post itself up to the last two. Maybe I need to resubscribe but you might want to check on that.