By BrianFlash, on August 8th, 2010
Per my ongoing effort to meet some of those faces in blog land face to face, two of my blogging Facebook buddies and I got together for a social run Wednesday night. Beth, a former St. Louisian living in Minnesota, and Beth, a former Minnesotan living in St. Louis met at my favorite statue, The [...]
By BrianFlash, on April 24th, 2010
For today’s long run, I finally made it out to reenact the 1904 Olympic Marathon held right here in St. Louis. For you extremely dedicated readers, you might remember my stunning write-up of this most peculiar of the Olympic marathons. If you haven’t read it, please do so. This post can wait.
So I’ve [...]
By BrianFlash, on April 11th, 2010
Typically before a marathon weekend, I take the current medal on display in my office home, in preparation for putting the new medal on display the following Monday. This Friday I forgot to bring the Little Rock medal with me as I left the building.
Friday afternoon, I visited the local witch doctor to get my [...]
By BrianFlash, on March 14th, 2010
While checking out the paper for info on the St. Patty’s Day run in St. Louis, I discovered that they had run out of timing chips. For any race day registrations, no timing chip would be available. Crap – I’m all about the official time so I decided to ditch the race. The rainy [...]
By BrianFlash, on February 1st, 2010
I’m interrupting this running blog to discuss my ‘culturing up’ I received on Friday night. My lovely wife Kathy celebrated her birthday early in the week so we made plans to go out on Friday night to dine and to attend the St. Louis Symphony. As an aside, her birthday is a big yearly [...]
By BrianFlash, on January 25th, 2010
As promised, some snaps from the Disney Marathon weekend (and one from eagle watching thrown in). Disposable camera so the quality is not exactly stellar, but there you go.
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By BrianFlash, on August 30th, 2009
I know you are all chomping at the bit to find out how Team Flash did at the St. Louis University Cancer Center 5K this weekend. Well, I’m going to make you wait another day or two for the full report since today represents the anniversary of a significant event in St. Louis and Olympic history. [...]