• 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)
• This time? • [½ MIN READ] My-Oh Maya and I[ya] were running together when she commented about wanting for the club to bring people back. For a lot of businesses and industry sectors, the pandemic made people rethink their work who never returned. Shawmont Running Club had its version of that when members started … More Your Wish is My Command (#147: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/23/23)
• 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)
• Alcohol-free • [¼ MIN READ] (From a December neighborhood run.) C: Time to turn on my headlamp.B: Okay, you’re red. Now you’re green. You fit right into the season.C: Looking like a traffic light. Great for cars.B: Now you’re blue.C: Cool. Like the kind of guy I am.B: Now you’re off.C: Not cool. Like … More Running Half-lit During the Year-end Holidays (#146: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/16/23)
• Hills are easier • [1½ MIN READ] I’ve been wanting to do more miles as marathon training season approaches (January for Jersey City, 04’14’U). Jason Variant and Jim Variant (both o’Variations o’J&J) decided to join me for another circuit on the Jenkintown S5K route. L-R: Jim Variant and Jason Variant [both o’Variations o’J&J], … More Doing Difficult Things at GGR (#236: 2023’12’20’W)
• Because there’s so much to be fond of • [1½ MIN READ] What with family visits and other interference, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve run with SRC (11’04’S, to be exact). Last week was only slightly different. Three of us from Jenkintown Running Company’s Growlers Group Run (Wednesdays) have picked our spring … More So Very, Very, Very Fond (#145: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/9/23)
• 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)
• All local, even • [2 MIN READ] The weird 22 miler I did last Saturday (in lieu of joining SRC) turned my mind to other atypical running events. We all know them, ones that are destination races, have catchy names, or have quirky themes. As far as destination races, we know the majors, like … More Off-beat Running Events (#144: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/2/23)
• 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)
• Something we can all use occasionally • [1½ MIN READ] I wrote at the beginning of November about SRC-branded products to ill affect. It seems Facebook trolls abound these days and will take advantage of any prompt to try to phish for information to steal in connection with false-product sales. Who knew? A couple … More I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends* (#143: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/25/23)
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