I was leaving the track early Tuesday morning in September and received a WhatsApp message from TC that just read, “Fuck yeah” along with a blue and gold heart. A couple days earlier he’d sent a few photos from Eastside 10K and I thought that was a delayed and rather enthusiastic response to my “thanks so much.” A couple hours later I was in my office and saw the Boston 2026 cut off time had been announced. “Oh fuck!” I said. “What!?” chorused my boss and his EA from outside my door. “I just got into Boston.”
It’s been five years since I’ve posted anything here. A bit ago I reached a mediated settlement with the Insurance Corporation of B.C. (ICBC) and by extension Mr. Dumb Fuck in a Truck (DFIAT), which is what ended this exercise in the first place.
Back in January, 2021, upon legal advice I unpublished all of my posts about getting clobbered by a negligent driver on the Sea to Sky highway while attempting my first century ride. “No good will come of this.” A common refrain from my lawyer whenever I would ask after some reporter came asking what’s up. This site went stagnant, ending abruptly with my mid-2020 check in post; eventually the site’s SSL expired and I let it petrify, but the domain and hosting continued to auto-renew.
Last summer, I considered resurrecting Read Run Write to catalogue the build up to the 2025 Chicago Marathon in October. Over the Christmas holiday I got the urge to do something with this again. At least to properly tie it off. So in a lightning storm of misdirected ambition I shocked this back to life, of sorts. I reposted my post-cycling crash near death experience and recovery, such as it (the recovery) and those (posts) are. I haven’t brought myself to revisit any of them and I don’t know if I will.
I am still unsure what this might end up looking like. I am dissatisfied with these current aesthetics. I’m going to return to posting here about what I have read and what I have run with a focus on training towards running the 130th Boston Marathon in April. I’m not sure what sort of frequency this will take on.
It is 85 days until Hopkinton.
Whoohoo Boston! Congrats.
Since I ended my dysfunctional relationship with all things Meta, I’ve been out of touch with folks like you. So from a totally self-centred POV, keep writing here. 😉 I especially like the “read” component. I’m currently at 8 read for the year so far, and am aiming to beat my 2025 total of 71.
So glad you’re back to writing this blog. I’ve been following your running on Strava and am very pleased you made it to Boston. You’ve been a source of inspiration for me for many years. Congrats!