july 2 day 54 26 miles total 1,407 setting out in the middle of the night paid off with a sweet 26 miles in 12 hours. i was moving better than that until we hit waterloo and had to make those time-eating route checks on the magic phone. one more pedestrian hating city is in the rear view mirror. along with the usual maze of shoulderless sidewalkless roads and construction zones. should be interesting in Read more…
july 1 day 53 25 miles total 1,381 miles. i began this journey feeling like i understood a lot about journey running. after all. i have been taking vacations on foot for nearly 40 years. i knew there were differences between my previous long trip of 9 days and a transcon. and i am not just talking about the changes in my age and health. there is still a long long way to go but Read more…
june 30 day 52 24 miles total 1,356 june total 792 miles. really disappointing to miss 800 miles for the month. i think most people would consider 800 to be a decent monthly total, but less than that and you really haven’t done anything. i would have made it, except i have been flipping my days and nights. yesterday i stopped at 1700 instead of 1900 and started back at 0300 instead of 0500. today Read more…
june 29 day 51 22 miles total 1,332 illinois tried to drown me. iowa seems intent on baking me. don’t know what it topped out at but it was over 90 before noon. native iowans introduced me to the concept of corn sweat. if you don’t intuitively know what corn sweat is, go walk in the blazing sun between endless fields of corn some hot summer afternoon. i am going to bed early today so Read more…
passing the hormel bacon plant…. imagine how that smells! laz
june 28 day 50 28 miles total 1,310 lots of big landmarks today. i crossed the mississippi. something that leaves me agog. that puts this journey in the realm of things my heroes have done. no matter how slow i am, just to be on the same page as them feels special. i also passed 1300 miles. it doesn’t sound like much but it is really far. still, until you reach 1400 you ain’t done Read more…
49 days 10 hours 21 minuets and 47 seconds after dipping my vial into the atlantic on brenton’s point in newport rhode island i stepped onto solid ground on the west bank of the mississippi river in dubuque iowa. who would have ever thought i could make it this far?! laz
june 27 day 49 28 miles total 1,282 staying on pavement made a huge difference to my feet. it meant a lot of zigzagging early on but was well worth it. only the uncooperative little toe gave me trouble. and even that only late in the day. i have been falling in love with every one of these little illinois (and now wisconsin) towns i have been traveling thru. all the old downtowns all the Read more…