Category Archives: General

I caught up to Thomas just before the first rest station at 21 km. We covered that distance in about 2:08 which is a good pace for a trail run. This was the first running of the race so the … Continue reading →

Last Sunday I successfully completed the Versailles – Rambouillet trail race, known as the Trail des Villes Royales and announced as a 51 km race, but more like 54 km. Here are the Strave details. It was a bit early … Continue reading →

Overall, 2015 was a successful year for running. I met most of my objectives and most importantly had no significant injuries and enjoyed many, many nice runs. I had an objective of 2500 km for the year and with good … Continue reading →

On 9 August 2014, I attended the 70th anniversary of the crash of a Royal Air Force airplane at Cugny, France. The plane was on a mission to support the French Resistance. None of the seven crew members survived. The … Continue reading →

Yesterday I did the “trail du donjon”, a 52 km trail run starting and ending in the small village of La Roche-Guyon which is situated about 50 km northwest of Paris along the Seine. The course starts and ends at … Continue reading →

Week 8 started off with a 23 km run on Monday, the 31st of December. I needed to do 22 km to make the 2000 km objective for 2012. I did 1 more just so that I didn’t miss the … Continue reading →

Marathon number 14 is done and in the books. I arrived at the Arc de Triomphe and found John in a café where we had coffee and stayed warm. It was about 6°C and windy so we wanted to stay … Continue reading →

Since I signed up for the race on 16 Nov, I’ve logged 797.19 km in preparation for tomorrow. That is only 73% of my objective of 1080. Here is the data. I had good months of Dec. and Jan. but … Continue reading →

It’s a 2008 Mini Cooper S

Here is a photo of my 2008 Mini Cooper S.   

We visited the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial today, the 90th anniversary of the Armistice in 1918. There was a ceremony held earlier in the day to place several wreaths on the monument. One of the wreaths was placed by cadets from … Continue reading →

Here is an extract of Ellen’s end-of-the-year modern dance performance.

This event was a modern art presentation … with no art displayed. Large rectagular white frames were placed around the room. You can see a few in the background of the video. Instead of displaying the art work, a reader … Continue reading →

Photos from the 2005 Paris Semi-marathon.

Here is my photo from the 2005 Paris Marathon. As you can see I ran the race on one leg!

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