Back To Vegas to see Barry

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For exercising hard and never allowing this disease to get the better of me, I occasionally reward myself with a trip to see the is an all new show for Barry, replacing Music& Passion, which has been headlining and selling out shows at the Hilton theater for the past 3 years. Among is fan base,the [...]

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Long week of Medical stuff

Monday, Visit with Dyspnea specialist Dr.Susan Jansen She spent a generous amount of time with me (almost 2 hours) and I actually learned quite a bit. I was impressed by her knowledge of pulmonary mechanics and the neuro-mechanisms of dyspnea . Because she knew I was an RT by trade, she was able to speak [...]

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Back to the depressing business of Asthma

With all the excitement and the welcome distraction of the recent races Ive participated in, it’s easy to forget that just 4 months ago I was sucking on the end of a size #7.0 ET tube, attached to a ventilator. Despite a fairly long run of good breathing days with a few races sprinkled in [...]

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An ExtraTerrestrial Race Report…..Long

Well, this race definitely ranks up there as one of the strangest, yet one of the funnest Ive ever done. Too bad I was sick as a dog during 90% of it. Oh, my lungs were fine. The elevation didn’t bother me at all, it was the rest of my body that was going haywire. [...]

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What an experience

Made it back home in one piece, but very exhausted after the 1200 mile drive. Will whip together a race report in a couple days. BTW… How do you like the hat? (made it myself) Related Posts:No Related Posts

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ExtraTerrestrial race instructions

Well, it’s finally here! The ET midnight marathon happens this Saturday night on a desolate mountain range somewhere in the middle of the Nevada desert! I’ll be driving down to Las Vegas from the bay area on Saturday morning ( 600 miles one way), picking up a couple of friends along the way. Once we [...]

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I’m three years old today

Hard to believe I wrote my first blog post and walked my first race 3 years ago this month. Who would’ve thunk Id still be writing this stuff. Heck, who woulda known I would go on to walk a marathon in Rome Italy. My original intention for this blog was to chronicle this crazy plan [...]

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My first 5K

Some of the cool things about doing a short 5K walk is, # 1. It’s easy to bring your camera along. #2. There’s still some food left at the finish line , and #3. You can still walk the next morning ! I’m afraid I couldn’t put much of a race report together, because in [...]

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