Don's Really Cool Adventures

 Every hear somebody telling you "Never try anything new on race day?" Here's what I have to say about that:

I wrote this on my way home from the Boston Marathon in 2013. I was working my way around the block to the reunion area when I heard the t...

Hey--this is something I wrote 3 years ago. I'm posting it here as an intro to one of our new sponsors: Xtreme Cryo. (Look up Dr....

I'm cleaning up my office a little bit this afternoon and just reorganized my bookshelves a little bit. I have a few books that are al...

It's a statistic that those running apps give you. So every once in a while, someone has to ask what the total ascent is in the Grand R...

So stuff like this gets posted and shared. I think someone's trying to make a very twisted point about guns here. Here's the answ...

Burnout? "Got a problem...it is a week and a half to race day and I'm burned out! I ran 8 miles last Friday and I had to MAKE...

One of our charities for the Grand Rapids Marathon. Last night I went to their kickoff for this year's training for the Metro Health Gr...

Almost everyday one of my friends on Facebook shares something that is totally false. I know the intentions are good, but really--- The...

The light from a distant star reached the mirrored surface of the Hubble Space Telescope after traveling nearly 26,500 years from a dist...

Yesterday I spent a good deal of my time paying attention to the 122nd running of the Boston Marathon. It was a great day for USA, with 7 o...

Five years ago--this happened. The memory is still fresh. April 15, 2013 Monday afternoon, I stood at the 26 mile mark of the Boston M...

Last time I went in for a physical a couple things came back. Swelling in my neck that with some followup and more doctors turns out my thy...

Anyone powerful enough to create a universe would have no reason to keep me alive forever People are basically good. At least they want ...

I got into a brief discussion with a guy I don't really know very well yesterday. He started in with "oh, you're a Trump suppo...

I'll probably never be a movie star Maybe you've heard of the Marathon Maniacs. Well, my good friend Nelsen Petersen is making...

The Chinese nation is a great nation; it has been through hardships and adversity but remains indomitable. --  Xi Jinping So the reason I...

Every day I’m going to make a blog entry. Today I had a great day. I got to spend a little time with a good friend down in Kalamazoo after ...

I'm a race director. So every day I get asked if people can "partner" with our events. By partner, they really mean they want...

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in. After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out. It's a...

Reading posts by people (FRIENDS!) that seem to be designed just to inflame the people on the other side of the issues. Then people postin...

OMG. WTF. OAIDU* One time I accidentally posted some information about myself on Facebook. No wait. That didn't happen. I "Goo...

It's only a theory. Evolution. Like the other ones. Gravity. Relativity. Planetary motion. You know. that sort of thing. People who w...

First Saturday in December, 2015. We were running by the Coke Plant and there it was. A fork. Bent up a little bit from being run over. ...

I never bought too many of them. But it's kinda fun thinking about what to do with all that money when the jackpots get over $100,000,0...

Five Minutes (or less) To Being A Better Runner By Marathon Don Kern Who has time for all this stuff? Not me. Most of us have a lot ...