As we are well into the holidays, I decided Marty and I both needed a little break to today and next Thursday have special encore presentations.

Nicole was the first guest and it seems only right for her to have the first encore spot; that and the fact she was a perfect person to fill that first guest spot.

Happy holidays everyone!

I thought after all these weeks of race reviews, now was a great time to take a look behind the scenes (thus also avoiding the F3 vs. USole decision).

Jonathan did not disappoint; I mean, I’ve been around races for quite a while and he even had me thinking differently on a number of things.

While we don’t want to know how the sausage is made, we do need to respect the process if for no other reason than race directors deserve that respect. Jonathan acts as race director for both the Wisconsin Marathon and the Evanston Flying Turkey and explains small independent race directors are certainly not doing this for the money and fame. They do it because they love doing it so can we just do our part to not make things harder?

That being said, if you are someone who did the thing that I referred to as “the dumbest thing ever”, I won’t apologize for my gut reaction. I will admit to being schooled on how it could happen and will do my best to help educate those not in the know.

Whaaaat? Yes, you read that right. The host was the guest and the editor was the host AND the editor!

Yes, the story about "running" a "half-marathon" one treadmill at a time is completely true; the things I did for a Tiffany key chain in 2007.