Til I Collapse

October 19, 2011

The photo above was taken a couple of hours after Haley and I had crossed the finish line under a setting Kona sun at the greatest finish line in all of sports on Alii Drive in the echoes of the beautiful day before us.  What you don’t see in the picture is three double-scoop ice [...]

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The Waiting

October 18, 2011

This Tom Petty classic opens up the next in the series, and my boy, Will-I-am, provides the kicker with a shot of him helping his Pa pack the rig for the trip to the Big Island. Like the chorus goes in the TP song, for me the rest period, the waiting, is the hardest part [...]

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Rift

October 16, 2011

Phish’s lead-off song to the album of the same name gets us to the next installment of the series from the mid-season break to taper with a focus on the build period. There’s something about the movement of the song and specifically the below lyric that causes a visceral reaction in me: The passion that [...]

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Mahalo ’11

October 6, 2011

This is the second year, I’ve written this post, and I wanted to be sure to write this year’s version before Haley and I get in the water tomorrow morning to begin a beautiful day in Hawaii. Like last year, I want to say a heartfelt, sincerest ‘thanks’ or mahalo to the people who have [...]

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The Long & Winding Road

October 6, 2011

A no-brainer to use The Beatles ballad from Let it Be for this one, especially when you have a bearded Paul on the ebony & ivory in the video; throw in a shot of the Queen K coming back home from the ride up in Hawi, and I get to hit all the metaphors at [...]

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