The title of this blog entry is taken from one of my most favorite songs of Steven Curtis Chapman. And it is the best way that I can describe of my desire to train and finish the BDM160. It became a “magnificent obsession” after I became determined that I would rise above my DNF [Did Not Finish] at the BDM160 2011 edition. It̵ [...]
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BDM 2012: A Magnificent Obsession
The title of this blog entry is taken from one of my most favorite songs of Steven Curtis Chapman. And it is the best way that I can describe of my desire to train and finish the BDM160. It became a “magnificent obsession” after I became determined that I would rise above my DNF [Did Not Finish] at the BDM160 2011 edition. It̵ [...]
Steven Curtis Chapman on Tuesday Play...
I’ve never experienced winter in the true sense of the word. So I do not know what it feels like to see blankets of white snow covering the streets, nor do I understand what it feels like for the chill of the wind to course through skin and bone like a knife bleeding into the human soul. But I have known pain in all its forms — ph [...]
COUNTDOWN TO BDM151 — Facing My...
It’s exactly about 15 weeks before the BDM151 and starting this Friday, I am devoting an article once a week to my journey to my longest run in my entire life. While it took me 17 years to realize my dream of finishing a marathon, it took me nearly two years to realize finishing my first ultramarathon. And for a first ultramarathon, I a [...]
31 Days to Running: Day 14 What’...
Everybody has a routine when they wake up in the morning. Some skip breakfast [not really a good idea and very unhealthy backed up by study after study after study!]. Some take coffee before doing their morning runs. Some take a shower first before having breakfast. Some just brush their teeth and still others would automatically open the tel [...]
