Former Action Guy

The Soaring Wings Half Marathon is held in Conway Arkansas to benefit the Soaring Wings Ranch childrens home. The cool thing about this ev...

I had been wanting to run this race for a few years but my schedule just never seemed to work out. It is a unique race for the area as it is...

This post has been a long time in coming. I took the Emergency Medical Technician Intermediate course  from October  2010 to March 2011.  On...

Tomorrow is my Wife's Birthday. She is the best. I think I said it all last year in this post. http://mikemac356.blogspot.com/2010/10/ma...

So last year I ran this Marathon and wrote about it here:  http://mikemac356.blogspot.com/2010/09/quad-cities-marathon-2010.html  . This yea...

Today is my Mother's Birthday. What do you say or give to the person who gave you life? Kinda seems pointless somehow. Life, how can yo...

As a member of the US Army Special Forces or "Green Berets" I spent alot of years doing alot of things that most would call "...

9.11.01 has become a symbol of many things to many people in the last ten years. But what it undoubtedly has become to many of us is the ...

As happens occasionally I have hit a ho hum period in my life. Or more specifically I have hit the doldrums doldrums [ˈdɒldrəmz] ...

Late in the fall of the year 1990 I participated in the liberation of Pineland. Pineland is a country whose boundaries coincidentally exac...

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...