Minimal shoes vs. performance-enhancing devices
I believe in minimal footwear and if I were to live on a beach somewhere and run only recreationally, I’d probably only have two pairs of running shoes for those times when I might choose to wear any...
View ArticleTwo laps to awareness
T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruellest month,” but then he was not referring to a calendar for autism awareness. Each year I greet the proclamation of Autism Awareness Month as a source of...
View ArticleGrounding for the Hardscrabble Runs
Grounding, or earthing is a controversial practice that in its truest sense involves direct physical contact with the ground. Some people claim health benefits and I don’t doubt they may be true. I...
View ArticleEndurance
Last fall when my neurodiverse son Harrison was running on his middle school cross-country team I began writing essays about our roller coaster of experiences and emotions. Some of these became columns...
View ArticleA perfect season
It was one of those awkward encounters. A casual acquaintance threw out a random statement and it made me think. In this case it was in a grocery store and the statement was essentially that there’s...
View ArticleReset at the track
It was one of those mornings when the whole world, at least the one we live in, needed a reset. The only remedy I could think of was to head to the track. For the past two seasons Harrison has run...
View Article‘Tis the season for running
Recently I’ve found some much-needed recharge time running alone in the Sangre de Cristo Range. This would be unremarkable except in all my years living here I’ve never run there in December. Skied?...
View ArticleThe true meaning of ‘competition’
I’ve been asked if running is “competition” for Harrison. This only fueled a deeper personal examination already under way in my own process. If we look at the root meaning of the word “competition,”...
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Review: Running with Sherman — blended fiction
Curtis Imrie and I (center/right, near bottom) getting our burros ready to poolshark/barnstorm for major money on the pack-burro racing circuit in Silver Cliff in the early 1990s. Also pictured,...
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Running through the pandemic
It was just a few weeks ago that I was finally able to rake up the dead skunk that had been frozen all winter to the ground in the first curve of our humble, wind-swept dirt track at 7,888 feet...
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