Former Action Guy

So bottom line up front I failed to accomplish my goal of completing a 50 mile ultramarathon. However like with everything I do I have a st...

So for something like the 15th time I ran the Alliant Energy 4th of July  5K. I haven't missed this race much in the last 20 years. I e...

Hi folks. I am sorry for not posting for an entire month. My life has been really crazy and the creative juices were just not flowing. I ha...

Remember those that have went before and those still to come. Thank you to all those that gave the ultimate sacrifice and those that still g...

After running the half marathon last year, see this post  http://mikemac356.blogspot.com/2010/05/fatslow-distance.html  and setting a pers...

One of Special Forces core missions is Foreign Internal Defense. FID as it is commonly known is where Special Forces teams will deploy and...

Not sure where to start so I will start from the ending. At 1330 hours today my son took Jake into the Animal Shelter and had him put dow...

So this weekend was pretty busy, after taking my NREMT practical yesterday,today I headed to Moline, Ill. for ironically enough the first ...

So I took my practical (hands on) exam for my upgrade to Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate. This practical is ...

So as most of you know I like to run, and as some of you know I like music. So when I got an ipod for my birthday last year what could be mo...

I decided to do this 10K because my race schedule had a hole in it for the month of March. I found it on kind of short notice on one of the...

As an EMT and a retired Special Forces soldier I have seen my share of douche bags. You know who I am talking about, the guys from suburbia...

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 ...