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Back in January, 2021, upon legal advice I unpublished all of my posts about getting clobbered by a negligent driver on the Sea to Sky highway while attempting my first century ride.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.