Former Action Guy

This was my first scheduled race of the year, I haven't ran a race since the Hawkeye 50K that I did back in December. This was also my ...

In July 1999 I was a member of the 1st Battalion 10th Special Forces Group stationed in Boeblingen Germany just outside Stuttgart. During t...

I was running one of my favorite routes the other day and as I was putting one foot in front of the other I started daydreaming about all th...

So I have been MIA from this blog for a few weeks, honestly and surprisingly I really had nothing to say. I mostly reserve this forum for mo...

In 1988 I was attending the U.S. Army Ranger school having progressed through City week and the Mountain phase I was now located at Eglin...

I haven't been blogging much this month, been pretty busy and also the old creative juices just weren't flowing. I was thinking toda...

In it usually about this time of year that all your radio stations start their top 100 countdowns or VH1 broadcasts best of the year videos...

OK so the day I trained for came and went and it was everything I wanted it to be. It was challenging, a suckfest (but not a bad suckfest l...

Twenty seconds doesn’t seem like a long time. Think about it, what do you do that takes 20 seconds? Microwave some leftovers, read some jun...

I was teasing my oldest son earlier today about the fact he likes Japanese Anime ( I mean really likes it) and how that makes him nerd. He a...

So this morning I ran in the Return of the Turkey Trot. This race is the closest thing we have to a Thanksgiving run in the immediate area b...

OK so this weekend I found my new "golf." It has been a long time since I had a "golf "but now I do and I will obsess o...

In the interest of fairness, I recieved a rather long rebuttal to my earlier rant about coaches. So for the first time ever here are commen...

So I was perusing the Runners World website today and I read this blog post http://rwdaily.runnersworld.com/2010/10/national-married-to-a-r...

So I don't normally whine about things that I know I don't have control over. I also know that this subject has been discussed ad na...