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 [...]
Tag Archives: Atlanta
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 [...]
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 [...]
Contest: The North Face Endurance Challenge – Atlanta, GA
UPDATE: We are extending the deadline through the weekend. All entries must be received by 5:00 pm on Monday, October 1st. We will notify the winner on Monday night. Who’s ready to race? If you’ve never participated in The North Face Endurance Challenge before, now is your chance. We are giving away a free entry to the October [...]
Overgrown Sidewalks and Urban Bushwhacking
Spring came and went like a bat out of hell, leaving us Georgians with 80+ degree days in February, followed by a summer that started in March. While the rest of the U.S. went from shorts to snowsuits and back again almost overnight, new plant growth down south greedily attacked the open spaces around it [...]
TalkJogRun Interview with The Run Commuter
On Monday, Kyle and I sat down for a chat with Caitlin Seick of WalkJogRun, a popular running route finding and planning website, and talked all about run commuting. WalkJogRun’s iPad app recently hit #7 in the health and fitness category, so check it out now, hipster, so you can say you knew all about [...]
Run to Work Day wrap-up
Did everyone enjoy running to work on Run to Work Day? TRICK QUESTION: of course you did. We heard from many of you, pre- and post-RtWD. Here is a sampling of some of the excitement that simmered in from Internaut, followed by my own experience and photographs. Our pal and fellow Atlantan Hall said, “Good [...]
Stalking Mother Nature: she’s so hot; she’s so cold
Al Gore opened new worlds of stalking to the shy, curious, and flat-out creepy. Gone are the days when one lurked in bushes, trees, or other foliage, hoping to ogle passersby or inventory their actions. That mode is, I imagine, much like vinyl: adamantly adhered to by a handful of purists (or, as it were, [...]
“I have SO MUCH to share!”
I scoop up adventures on my runs like children do coins in fountains: so excited by each, and there are just so many of them, all valuable. Most runners are like this, I believe; if not, they should be; they can be. Running to work or home, I constantly catalog the singular, split-second scenes past [...]
Doggie doo don’ts
Part of the joy of running to work is the ability to explore and experience your community. Indeed, you are inherently exposed to it as you dash/trot/trudge to and from work. Bicycling gives you this freedom, too; however, at their slower pace, run commuters more intimately experience the areas in which the community needs improvement. [...]
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