Races I have run in Korea

1. Daegu Marathon / April 13, 2008 (4:26:30) 2. Seoul International Marathon / March 15, 2009 (4:31:54) 3. Seoul International Marathon / March 21, 2010 (4:07:37) 4. Gyeonggi Marathon in Suwon / April 17, 2011 (4:17:32) 5. Hangang...

My first race

The passage of more than three decades has resulted in some of the details fading away, but I am able to remember my first road race fairly well. I would have paid closer attention had I known I would run in so many more of these in the...

I Finally Made the Team

I Finally Made the Team

The back-story is as follows. I had played guard on the basketball team, and quarterback and defensive back on the football team at Hexter Elementary School in Dallas. My neighborhood was no hotbed of athletic competition...

Close calls

I had done relatively well in the Sunsa 10K race in Amsa-dong. I just needed to traverse an intersection, and I would soon be at the finish line. It was the duty of some retired Marine Corpsmen to tell the drivers to stop...

A Cadillac for $50

Shortly after the turn of the millennium—let’s say 2002—I got something in the mail. It was not a personal letter but a commercial come-on. I ordinarily threw such pieces of mail in the circular file (the trash), but...