The Running Year By The Numbers

As 2008 winds down, Amy and I are having a traditional New Year’s Eve filled with debauchery.  She’s eating a bowl of tomato soup with cheddar cheese and crackers in

December 31, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Subsidies Snubsidies

Erin Griffith at PEHub has a dynamite link to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 15 years ago that is a perfect description what’s going on today in the “subsidy

December 31, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Trust, The Healthcare System, and Saving My Dad’s Academic Life

My father, Stan Feld, is a retired endocrinologist.  He wrote a beautiful blog post yesterday titled The Therapeutic Magic Of The Physician Patient Relationship: Part 1.  In it he tells

December 25, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Recommendation – Ignore All The 2009 Predictions

Oh goody, they are here.  Every magazine, newspaper, and most of the online publications known to man are putting together their “2008 year in review” and their “2009 prediction” editions.

December 24, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Christmas vs. Chanukah

As Chanukah sprints ahead and gets started before Christmas, we all know how this ends since Christmas will finish before Chanukah does.  To refresh your memory, take a look at

December 22, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amy Has The Real Rocket City Marathon Pictures

A marathon wouldn’t be a marathon without my sherpa.  Amy plays the role perfectly, including taking all the important pictures.  My favorite:

December 21, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Jewish Christmas

I was inspired by the hilarious McSweeney’s article Recreational Jewish Youth Basketball: An Ethnography (thanks Amy) to host a Jewish Christmas party this year near Keystone, Colorado.

December 20, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Awesome Marathon in Huntsville

Marathon #14 is done.  It was fantastic – I finished in 4:39:21 which is my fourth best time of the 14 marathons that I’ve run.  The course was fantastic, the

December 14, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Hanging Out In Huntsville

I’m running the Rocket City Marathon tomorrow.  It’ll be my 14th marathon in my quest to finish one in every state in the US.  My co-host in this experience is

December 12, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Did You Miss Me?

Ahhh – that was a very nice vacation.  Q4 vacation is often around my birthday, so Amy whisked me away to Cabo for a week of being completely off the

December 7, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld