October 7 (63)

Close to this date back in 1997 I ran the Twin Cities Marathon (October 5, 1997 to be exact).   It is an excellent marathon, starting in Minneapolis, touring around the lakes and along the river, crossing over into St. Paul, in principle still running along Summit Avenue and finishing at the Capital.

October 6 (62)

The Vikings play the Saints tonight and I need to find a lucky Vikings shirt.  This shirt is an early-90s era one.  I already wore one that was lucky last year but did not seem to help against the Packers this year (see September 8 post) or else some of you were eating cheese that day despite my clear instructions.   By the way, no tabasco sauce today and definitely no cajun anything.

October 5 (61)

This morning I ran the 24th Annual Army Ten Miler.  It was an excellent morning for a run -- cool, sunny and not windy.  It's the largest ten miler in the nation so don't be surprised if you see someone else wearing the same shirt!

October 4 (60)

Here is a shirt from last year's Army Ten Miler in Washington (October 7, 2007).  It is advertised as the nation's largest ten miler and is an awesome race if you don't mind the crowds.  A couple years ago it was the world's longest ten miler when they rerouted the course into an 11.5 mile run!

October 3 (59)

Here is a St. Olaf Cross Country 'Big O' t-shirt.  I like this one because I know what the O stands for but most other people do not -- but now you do!  I did a race on this date back in 1992 (the Loyola 8K CC in Chicago) but can't seem to find the shirt so I picked this CC shirt since at least the season was appropriate.

October 2 (58)

Here is another triathlon shirt.  This one is from my second half ironman race -- in and around Jordan Lake in North Carolina on October 4, 1998.   I recall the lake being very shallow -- half way out on the swim my hands were scraping bottom -- and the bike being very rainy -- the Powerbars I had stuck to my top tube basically disintegrated (this was well before BentoBox days).

October 1 (57)

On this date back in 2000, Jodi and I did the Georgetown Classic 10K.   A common fall theme for running shirts involves leaves.