This is not what it looks like

(Half) Marathon of the Palm
Beaches, Dec. 2005.

This blog will deal largely with my own feats and failings as I return to serious racing for the first time in the lifespan of a standard canine. It is not my first such blog. I jumped on board with these self-indulgent projects way back in August 2004, when I started "Cognitive Emesis." I kept this going for about a year and a half before nuking it out of general frustration with how my own running was going, but then quickly decided to join Alison Wade's slate of elite-running.com blogs and gave that one, which exists as a zombie at the Wayback Machine, the same name as the current one. That one only lasted about six months, as I had lapsed into being an inactive competitor and nothing to say about running that wasn't bitchy.

Finally, in mid-2006, I joined a friend in creating "The Chimpanzee Refuge," a science-related blog that actually earned me pocket change here and there when it was housed on Science Blogs along with about 70 other similarly themed shout-spots.We pulled that one out the parent domain in mid-2009 and stuck it at Chimp Refuge dot Com. I'm now the only one contributing to it, and I contribute sparingly.

Since about 2009, I'd say, Facebook has more or less killed my already moribund blogging. Research conducted by the nonprofit institute of me has demonstrated that people don't like to click on links in Facebook posts unless it's obvious the reward will be immediate (e.g., pets and animals doing entertaining things). So for years I've written long-winded status updates that are nothing more than blog posts that never made it to a blog, because I wanted people to actually read them.

In any event, that's the run-down on my history. The blog itself looks very plain right now and I have no intention whatsoever in beautifying it. I don't even like this template, but it's here to stay.