I always try too hard to make clever post titles, so I didn’t bother this time.  I also have an increasing tendency to write very long, deep posts every month or two rather than writing more frequent posts every few days.  It’s frustrating to not write for so long, but it’s also frustrating to write [...]

My awesome mother is flying to Morocco this Sunday to compete in the 23rd annual Marathon des Sables. Here’s an excerpt from the race website about this year’s course: The route for 2008 is 245.3 Km long, making it the longest ever in the history of the MARATHON DES SABLES. The race will be challenging [...]