Life Stories

I had UVA football season tickets from 2001 to 2009. I had to drop them when I was working races every Saturday and Sunday in the fall. Now that I have retired, I can get to some of the UVA home games that do not conflict with races[more …]

With the Taliban’s 11 day takeover of the Afghanistan government, our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms becomes more relevant.[more …]

I’m not a big fan of NPR. They seem to have a political slant and lobby ideas, all in the form of a non-profit organization.[more …]

I’m not a fake news conspiracy nut. However, I’d wish we could get more factual data on two recent stories and then be able to make conclusions. The news reports “Orange Man Bad.”[more …]

On July 21, 2021, at the Tokyo Olympics, Sweden out hustled, outran, and outplayed the US Women. Sweden kicked their butts all over the field. In the few minutes, I watched, multiple US women laid on the grass with injuries.

Before the game, the USWNT knelt during the US National Anthem. Maybe the USWNT should work out and hone their skills rather than spending their time trying to figure out how to choreograph protests[more …]

For Ms. Biles, the actual mental health issues are coming as she will need to cope with this loss of ability and how it impacts her self-image.[more …]

Google owns feedburner.com. Sometime in the summer of 2021, Google will shut down the Feedburner site. This site has been the procedure that slowoldrunner.com was using to send emails when I post a new article. As a replacement, I recommend using follow.it to replace that functionality.[more …]

The 108th Tour de France wrapped this past Sunday. The NBC Sports Channel has carried each race stage in its entirety for the past many years.

After my morning runs, I’ll usually watch an hour while stretching. Since I’ve recorded the race on my Tivo, I will skip through the commercials and the nonaction parts of each stage.[more …]