Two weeks ago, I got three comments while running home from work. It’s not unusual: friends passing might hail hello; would-be wits and jerks in general offer more inflammatory fare, often from a passing car’s window. One of the comments that day came from an addled homeless lady sitting spread-eagle in the middle of the [...]
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Mike: family man, marathon man
DeKalb Avenue is off my typical run commute route, but the morning was foggy and DeKalb offers a wonderful view of the skyline’s sentinels huddled in their wooly blankets. It also allowed me to meet Mike, another run commuter! I spied Mike’s florescent orange shirt from several blocks back and hot-heeled it after him, grabbing [...]
Pack Comfort Evaluation: Extended Ultramarathon Edition
Though we use them nearly daily on roads, our run commute packs are all designed for trails, for hikers, through-hikers, fastpackers. One can see in our reviews how well they serve their purposes and meet our run commuting needs; however, perhaps readers still wonder about their comfort and ability during those 3-6 mile runs. How [...]
Gray: a collegian run commuter
“I am out of shape,” he huffed, though he seemed anything but. I encountered Gray on my run commute home Wednesday, at the corner of Piedmont and MLK, in the gold-domed glare of the Capitol. Weekly I see new run commuters, but often they are blocks away or my camera is at home; so it [...]
Review: REI Stoke 19 Backpack
The transition from runner to run commuter mandates a method of transport, and so, a bag of some kind becomes necessary, be it a cloth drawstring bag the likes of which are given out at job fairs and to elementary schoolers; your mom’s old fanny pack or your dad’s new fanny pack; or, for me, [...]
What I saw on my summer vacation
Laura and I just returned from Washington, D.C., a trip we’d planned more than a year. To give you the flavor of it: after a long day visiting historic sights and museums, we unwound in our hotel room by reading the founding Charters and other important American documents, and learning about the policies surrounding the [...]
Happy birthday, The Run Commuter!
A little-known, yet momentous for us, milestone came and went in April: our birthday, or anniversary, or, if you like, Annual Recognition of Official Launch! That it has taken me a month to write of it is not indicative of the level of celebratory bender on which we went, but how danged much we have [...]
Graphic: Americans’ annual consumption
Here I mean “graphic” to mean both a visual representation of what our nation is ingesting, and the more colloquial sense of looking upon something that churns both one’s soul and stomach. I saw this image from Visual Economics, representing Americans’ average ages, heights and weights, and the things we eat. The graphic’s title, too, [...]
Roll away your wrinkles
It occurred to me as I titled this post that you, dear reader, will now see banner ads wherever Internaut takes you, proclaiming Housewife in East Cupcake finds miracle trick to smooth her face! and Follow this one simple rule to avoid crows’ feet! and so forth. But I write not of laugh lines and [...]
Drying soggy A.M. gear for the P.M. commute home
Reader and new run commuter Eric asks a very good question: “[M]ight you add where you store your wet running clothes during the day? I mean, they have to get dry before the pm commute, right?” Technically, no: they do not have to dry before the return home. I will impinge on no person’s prerogative [...]
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