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I never liked Track. As my "not so much" sport, it provided many humbling afternoons over seven long seasons. With one notable...

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! The award for "Most Miserable Race Ever" goes to the 2023 St. Paddy’s Half Marathon! Not quite the...

On the morning of Saturday, March 18, I’ll be running the St. Paddy’s Half Marathon in Des Moines. Although I'm approaching this race as...

I tackled my first race of the year last Saturday in running the Red Flannel 10K. I see this downtown Des Moines race as well as the...

At 7:07 am on Tuesday, January 17, my mother died of cancer. Six days later, I moved my father, who has dementia, from his home of over...

When I left Oregon for Rapid City almost thirty years ago, I looked forward to what I considered a “real winter.” I knew that a snowfall...

First things first! Let me wish to each of you the best of tidings for the upcoming holidays! It's my hope that the coming days allow...

My personal highlight for running in 2022 came on a sticky Saturday morning in early July. I was about halfway through an eight-mile run...

Mr. Consistency? I'll get to that later. Right now, I'm thinking back to almost exactly forty years ago today when the sport that had...

Rick sad. Or to put it in a somewhat more descriptive manner, I am a bit down about having had to miss the IMT Des Moines Half Marathon...

We don't always realize the actual significance of certain events until after they've taken place. That was certainly the case...