“How do you flip the internal switch that changes us all back into the Natural Born Runners we once were? Not just in history, but in our own lifetimes. Remember? Back when you were a kid and you had to be yelled at to slow down? Every game you played, you played at top speed, [...]

Last Sunday (10/18) I got to run the Columbus Half Marathon. It was a beautiful, brisk morning and the 13.1 mile run through downtown Columbus, Bexley and German Village was gorgeous. There were live bands along the way and tons of people came out to support the runners – 15,000 in all.  Aside from some [...]

Last year, my buddy Nate (a huge Penn St. fan)  and I met in Iowa City for the Iowa – Penn St. game. This year, we drove out to Happy Valley together for the rematch.
Noah was definitely excited and helped me with a little project while mommy was out shopping a few days before the [...]

Grandma and Grandpa McCaman just got done spending a few weeks out in Iowa and brought Noah some nice clothes to wear. Poor kid only had Buckeye stuff to wear up until now…

Wade, Sharon and I ran the Labor Day 5k at Worthington Hills Elementary School. My time was 23:56. I had been shooting for 25 min. so I was really pleased with my time. Wade and Sharon did great in their 5k walk. All in all, a great Labor Day morning.
Here’s the link to the overall [...]

Wow, this is going to be interesting…

Those of you who know me and know handball will appreciate this one. This is one of the coolest handball goals I’ve ever seen and one that I’ve thought of trying from time to time. Thanks to Grandpa Gary for this gem.

Let me describe yesterday for you:

Emily was severely under the weather, with a fever, chills and aches
Noah is only a week and a half and is still figuring this whole eat/sleep/repeat routine
The outside temperature was approaching 90 degrees and our air had been broken since last Friday
We had our third and fourth visits from our [...]

I just spent my lunch break watching this. You should do the same.

Here’s my 3 mile run from yesterday, compared with the last 3 mile run I did. Even though I wasn’t really “feeling it” yesterday, my pace is really improving. In the next couple weeks I hope to get a better sense of what is a realistic time goal for the 10K.