Archive For September 30, 2026
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says. ― Haruki Murakami I ran by this house yesterday and faded vinyl siding spoke to me. “You call that running?” When inanimate objects make fun of you, the smart…
When the running camp at WSU was in its last week, someone came up with the idea of running a 24-hour relay. You know, that bit of madness where you have a ten-man team and you take turns running a mile. This goes on for 24 hours. Bill Scobey cemented his claim to the name Mad Dog.
So many to thank, all a story unto themselves. Like my dad for encouraging me to take a risk, quit my day job and go all in as a post-collegiate runner.
“Has he told you how I used to diaper him when he was little and he squirted me right in the eye?”
Original Gangster Of Running Lisa Larsen Weidenbach Rainsberger had a laudable, lucrative, lustrous career. Finished as the First Alternate at the USA Olympic Marathon Trials in 1984, and again in 1988 and again in 1992.
Yeah, really. Three consecutive times in a row.