#MeetMeInStLouis – Day 1
It was late morning when stopped for a meal, ironically enough in St Louis, Michigan. Unfortunately none of the locally owned places I passed coming in to town were open just yet, so I resigned to breakfast burritos from McDonald’s. I leaned my bike against a window on the side of the building, next to […]
#MeetMeInStLouis
Though it was still fairly early in the afternoon, the sun was already much warmer than it had been the first two days of this year’s #RunToBayshore. Sitting sideways on a folding chair I found in front of the Sunoco station kept me mostly within the thin shadow cast by the building. As I drank […]
2024 Bayshore Marathon
2024 Bayshore MarathonOfficial Results:3:34:35 / 8:11 pace #RunToBayshore ❤️[📸 By Rudy Malmquist]
2024 #RunToBayshore – Day 3
Three days and 130.1 miles of running have brought me to this place, and these amazing people. Now all that remain are 26.2 miles in the morning….. ❤️ #RunToBayshore – Day 349.3 MilesTracking.MattsStupidIdeas.com
2024 #RunToBayshore – Day 2
Not long after sunrise, through a small break in the trees this scene caught my eye. Believe me when I say that the camera fails to even do it justice. The display was worth every extra moment I remained there taking it in. It also struck me that, during the time I stood on the […]
2024 #RunToBayshore – Day 1
As I was enjoying my wet burrito at the TimeOut Tavern, I knew it was time to finally make a decision I’d been putting off all week. Last year the choice was easy; temperatures in the upper 30’s make sleeping outside impossible without carrying a lot more gear, and a much larger pack. I rented […]
2024 #RunToBayshore
It’s the Wednesday before Memorial Weekend, and I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing. I’ll see you in Traverse City…..❤️ #RunToBayshoreTracking.MattsStupidIdeas.com
2024 Groundhog Marathon
12 years ago I sat with my friends after a group run and came up with the perfect pacing plan. I knew exactly how fast I was going to start, when I would have nutrition, and a solid goal of when I would finish. Only a few days later, we made our way to Grand […]
Twenty Twenty Four
Each night, after the evening news, they run a short series of cycling slides showing the names and ages of local people who have passed away over the last several days. It makes me smile whenever I see someone who made it to the century mark, and equally sad to see some of the numbers […]