A Passion for Running

Welcome to the home of Mark aka The Running Blogfather – a 40 year-old dad, husband and marathon runner who's beaten injury and is on the comeback trail!

still here

passion for running category: friends & family on Sunday, February 10 2008

Have you ever stopped posting and then found it really hard to start again? Yeah? Well, here I am starting from the beginning so this one’s gonna be simple.

I took my son to a monster truck show last night. I’m not into that sort of thing but, of course, it’s irresitible to a five year old boy. He was SO excited. Note to the unitiated: GraveDigger rulz (sort of the Hulk Hogan of the monster truck gig)! Here’s a little collage I put together of our time there. Click on the pic to enlarge.

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i’m back

passion for running category: friends & family on Monday, August 13 2007

Back from a very, very very rainy camping trip. The video below is my favorite memory on a mostly gloomy week. Running-wise, I had some very interesting experiences but I’m too tired to write them up at the moment.



just because they’re so dang cute

passion for running category: friends & family,running on Monday, March 27 2006

The kidletts…

the boy
the girl
thumbs up

5 minutes and counting and I’m off for a run!



a happy wife is a good thing

passion for running category: friends & family on Friday, January 6 2006

My wife is very happy. Very very happy. Wanna know why? It’s because she got a new van. And man o’ man did she ever deserve it. Our old van was so old and decrepid, things were breaking and/or falling off every week. No joke.

Here’s Lori with her new baby:



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