Walking Tom

My previous post is titled "successful fall season" and that's true but a bit premature. We have ONE more race this season, on Sunday of this week at home in DC. We will be doing it with our TNT ...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2012/10/here-we-go-again.html

Happy to report a successful Fall 2012 season of healthy endurance events. Also proud to report over $5000 raised so far this year via TNT for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. There is one eve...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2012/10/successful-fall-2012-season.html

Cancer just never seems to quit. No matter how hard we try to many people are sick and dying because of this pervasive disease. The point of this message is to get your help in the battle. By sup...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2012/09/cancer-does-not-quit-so-why-should-we.html

Oh my goodness, my face should be very red about my failure to post to my own blog. Been having too much fun commenting on other people's blogs, posting on Facebook and other stuff. So now it's o...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2012/09/walking-tom-is-bad-blogger.html

April 28, 2011 - learned my luck did not bring a lottery entry for the 2011 Nike Women's Half Marathon, so signed on for my 7th Nike Women's Marathon appearance with Team in Training. Have actual...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2011/04/back-to-nike-womens-marathon.html

Yes, it says runner-up, again and we are MIGHTY proud of our Bulldogs! Butler is the only Indiana school to ever go to the final game two years in a row, and based on a quick glance at the NCAA...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2011/04/bulldog-pride-determination.html

BULLDOGS It really is fun to watch the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament when your alma mater is doing well, and when they are giving us good close games to enjoy watching. Now have my friends ...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2011/03/memories.html

It's been too long since my last post on this blog so let's get caught up a bit. My 2010 racewalking year is complete, and was reasonably successful. Thank you, on my own behalf and especially ...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2011/03/2010-season-completed-successfully.html

Have to step away from the usual “training report” which is overdue, and tell you about something special which happened yesterday. Opened my email to find a contribution to my TNT account fr...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2010/07/contribution-from-bob.html

Having done a couple of short (5K events) since the CIMC , and realizing it's been far too long since this blog was updated, thought I could at least post a list of the events Naomi and I have pl...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2010/04/2010-events.html

Caribbean Islands Marathon Cruise 2/6 to 2/13/2010 - Tom Farnam’s Journal Many more photos can be seen in this Kodak Gallery This saga begins in August of 2009, when Naomi sent me an emai...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2010/02/caribbean-islands-marathon-cruise-2010.html

October 25, 2009 was a "faith restored" sort of day - did the 10K at the Marine Corps Marathon in a Personal Record time. 1:25:04 may not seem fast if you are a runner, to this racewalker it fe...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/10/marine-corps-marathon-10k.html

Even though my finishing time in my last Nike Full Marathon was 30 minutes slower than I had hoped for, it was a good weekend, good day and good race. I learned several things, among them t...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/10/nike-full-marathon-10182009.html

OK, for those who (like me) don't speak a lot of French, that says "2009 Marathon of the Two Banks Levis/Quebec Walking Half Marathon". We went to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada for another racewalk...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/10/2009-marathon-des-deux-rives.html

TRAINING Getting ready to do yet another Nike Women's Marathon is sometimes fun. Then there are the summer mornings when you get up to 75 degrees and 75% humidity at 0500, knowing the temperatur...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/08/training-getting-ready-to-do-yet.html

TCF Racewalking History as of April 29, 2010 October, 2004 - Naomi finishes five months of training and completes Nike Women’s Marathon 1. April 30, 2005 Nashville, TN Country Music ½ Ma...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/02/toms-racewalking-history.html

OK, we did it. No sunburns, no frostbite (closer to the latter than the former) and more than a little soggy, but we did it. Friend Kevin could not do the event, but was at the finish line to gre...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/05/ok-we-did-it.html

April 18, 2009 found us headed for Chesapeake, VA for a Half Marathon called "The Dismal Swamp Stomp". Selected this one for several reasons: not too far away (about 3 hour drive); flat course; ...

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Bermuda for a race? Naomi picked up a flyer for the event at the Baltimore marathon expo (where she raced and I played spectator/support). We started talking with our NOVA racewalking friend Alic...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2009/01/bermuda-triangle-challenge.html

Our friend John Phillips has been talking about the Richmond Half Marathon, and convinced us we should join him. After all, Dave, Rhonda and David Morales live just outside Richmond so we can sta...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2008/12/richmond-va-half-marathon-111508.html

The date for this 10K happened to coincide with World Run Day, so Naomi signed us up for this event, as World Run Day is something she has gotten involved with, in part as a "team building" item...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2008/12/veterans-day-10k-9-november-2008.html

Took at look at my blog site this morning and realized there's no posts since Nike 2008. Here's the first, from our "recovery walk" the following week at the Marine Corps Marathon. We started doi...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2008/12/marine-corps-10k-october-26-2008.html

Sunday morning, 3:00am Pacific Time and the alarm is buzzing. Time for Naomi and me to get up and get moving, the bus departs for the start line at 4:30 and we need to be ready by 4:15. The good ...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2008/10/nike-womens-marathon-10192008.html

August 8th found Naomi and I traveling again for the Chicago Distance Classic Half Marathon. The good news is we finished, earning ourselves another "Big Honkin' Penguin Medal" as race organizer ...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-distance-classic-august-10-2008.html

This was our second "Inaugural Event" this year, and turned out to be a very nice smaller event. Pretty course, starting at the Navy/Marine Corps Stadium, going past the Naval Academy, across the...

http://walkingtom.blogspot.com/2008/06/zooma-annapolis-half-marathon.html