An Unauthorized, Unsolicited, and Unplanned Appeal on Behalf of the Coen Brothers, and My Sanity I am supposed to be writing about endurance sport right now. Every night that I drift off without writing the article I have been putting off since before Thanksgiving 2021 (it’s now early January 2022)…

Prologue When we fear for our lives, our safety, our possessions, our desires, we run to comfort. The comfort of an old blanket movie, conversation with a friend. An old book, article something we read, something we wrote. Going back to George Plimpton and Hunter S. Thompson as inspiration has provided…

A GFNY La Vaujany Special — I have yet to pedal the bike, having only arrived in Vaujany last night, sleeping off jet-lag, and getting out first thing to find a coffee and the bike shop so that I could have my new bike — that I don’t quite understand the mechanics of — assembled by…

Heading Back to France — We Will Re-Join #OnlyWhenChased on June 25 — And you may find yourself…hopefully, joyfully, at the tail-end of a pandemic. And you may find yourself headed to another part of the World. And you may ask yourself — well, how did I get here? Literally, letting the days go by. But here we are “Once in a Lifetime”…

The Pace Remains the Same — For those who have been following along — and we know you have (never gets old), we are about ten weeks on from the last “running report card” around training for GFNY Marathon Florida, the overall race calendar for 2021 is starting to take shape. It may sound strange to…

Amidst all the Freeman hysteria, once again, it’s incumbent upon the public to suspend belief in the math, physics, and logic of a situation that just spawns more questions by the second about a situation that is fraught with at least one solitary consistency. That being the culture at Sky/British…

Fits and starts. Fits and starts. The sporadic nature of wrapping yourself in anything worthwhile will often encounter this problem. Let me explain. For as excited as I am about my first marathon, and as excited as I was to publish the first in the #onlywhenchased series, the fits and…

Prologue My journey with fitness came from cycling. Turned on to cycling about 13 years ago, it became a passion and a “way forward” after a health scare about 6 years after starting. Not long into that health scare, I discovered that the concept of “racing to train” was the best…

It’s Time to Face the Role the Immutable Laws of Physics Play in the Borough’s Transportation Crisis — Around the time that my parents moved us here from Queens, Wikipedia shows that the population of Staten Island was 295,443 humans. That was in 1970. Ten years later, in 1980 as I was ready to start High School, the population had grown by 17% to 352,029. By comparison a…