• Habit forming • [1 MIN READ] I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t always paid a lot of attention to the Jenkintown Sunset 5K race. This year, 2024, is its 32nd year and I’ve been a Jenkintown resident for 27 of those years. I don’t even know how many of those years that banner … More The Growlers Doing the S5K Race (#242: 2024’01’31’W)
• Nothing but the facts? Hardly. • [1 MIN READ] Despite a snowstorm that cancelled schools the day before and sub-freezing weather the day of, 6 Growlers showed up last Wednesday to run the roads of Jenkintown doing the usual Sunset 5K route. I say “roads” literally, because those are what were consistently clear, what … More Run Report (#241: 2024’01’24’W)
• We see you • [1 MIN READ] You’ll have to check out Poses to appreciate some of the distinctive poses that defined various Growlers Group Run attendance pictures. One of the benefits of taking and managing them is that I get to notice runners’ posing habits and then call them out. So last week … More Posers: Jason Edition (#240: 2024’01’17’W)
• Those places can sometimes be pretty big • [1 MIN READ] Last week, I took the GGR traveling team to Lloyd Hall to join Black Men Run. It’s been well over 3 years since I’ve been with that crew; still I recognized 2 of the 5 runners who also recognized me. The last (and … More Communities in Their Own Places (#239: 2024’01’10’W)
• Joint effort: Black Men Run • [½ MIN READ] What a great bunch of guys Black Men Run were! It was amazing to get to know them and learn some of their life and running stories. One guy works for Abington Township and another is at Cheltenham High School with JRC (Coach) Drew. 2 … More Thoughts [#65]: Run Report – BMR (8/5/2020, Weds)
• Getting to know about folks unlike yourself • [½ MIN READ] Sometimes plans have a way of just falling together. It helps if you involve the right people. Last week I already said I’d been thinking about joining Black Men Run Philadelphia some time. The problem is that they run right when the Growlers … More Thoughts [#63]: Moving Toward Black Men Run (7/22/2020, Weds)
• Fail • [<1 MIN READ] WWW on 12’20’W revealed that Jason and I have respective family members in Columbia MD. We decided to meet and run while we were both down there for the holidays. When it came time to execute, it may have been the sacrifice of quality time with family that made … More GGR’s Traveling Team (#238: 2024’01’03’W)
• Finding degrees of appeal to ease the process along • [1 MIN READ] Part of the human social experiment is learning to live in the larger world. Because I grew up in a relatively homogeneous community, the moment I started college, I had to start learning more about the world outside of that homogeneity. … More Experiencing Other Communities to Learn About Them (#237: 2023’12’27’W)
• To be determined • [1 MIN READ] While WWW has been at Human Robot for reasons elucidated elsewhen, there has been one other destination since the inception of the tradition. HR has many degrees of appeal, but Pizza Wheel doesn’t have the more-than-occasional loud band. It does have a Wednesday-night $10 cheesesteak special and … More WWW at Human Robot, Not Again? (#235: 2023’12’13’W)
• Even if circumstances conspired against • [1½ MIN READ] Thanks to the 5 who came to the Growlers Group Run in my absence I could confidently join Black Men Run from Boathouse Row’s Lloyd Hall in Philly knowing there would be a good bunch who knew what to do back at the running store. … More A Safe Solo Run (#234: 2023’12’06’W)
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