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State Of The Union Address, Where By Union I Mean This Blog

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021Leave a comment

Hello, humans! I hope you don’t mind if we take a brief moment to talk a bit of blog shop. Since Fairest Run Of All transitioned from Blogger to WordPress last month, there have been a LOT of changes. Some you almost certainly noticed (especially the part where it was down for a week and a half 🤪), some you probably didn’t. In either case, let me bring you up to speed. A lot of FROA ported over to the new platform without a hitch – and a lot of it didn’t. Yay! Some notable hiccups included broken links,...

In Which Jenn Picks Her Very Favorite Posts

July 23, 2021August 16, 2021Leave a comment

Hey guys! As of a couple weeks ago, this little blog (it’s called The Fairest Run Of All, but you can always glance up at the header if you forget again) turned eight years old. This isn’t as big a deal as the sort of anniversary that has a five on the end of it, but not bad, right? A good run so far. We’ve racked up a heckuva lot of posts over the years, and I figured this would be as good a time as any to comb through the archives and put together a list of my...

In Which This Is Jenn’s One Thousandth Blog Post

November 23, 2020August 16, 20212 Comments

I stopped celebrating this blog’s birthday a couple years in (it’s in July, if you’re wondering, and we’re currently over seven years on). After a while, with no 5 or 0 on the end of the number, it felt kinda redundant. But something about 1,000 posts feels like it warrants some mention, so here we are. This is my one thousandth post! You’re reading it right now! I would like to thank: my brain, for refusing to stop thinking and rethinking things until I exorcise them by writing them down my body, for letting me continue to run and...

In Which Jenn Is Back! … Well, Pre-Back

June 1, 2019August 18, 20212 Comments

Yooo! I couldn’t let the whole of May go by without a single post. I didn’t mean to take a blog break at all, really. But it was so easy to let slip – we were moving into a new, permanent place in Puerto Rico, and I was settling into teleworking, and also I’m planning a wedding which as it turns out is like half a job in and of itself… These are all excuses, of course. If you don’t post to the blog for a week, it’s easier not to the next week, etc. But I don’t want...

In Which Jenn Makes A Contingency Plan: Trip Reports & Race Recaps

March 31, 2019August 19, 2021Leave a comment

Heeeey! So like I alluded to earlier, I am in the midst of a very big move. I don’t anticipate any real lapse in service (this blog provides a service, right?) but I do want to provide for all possible eventualities. With that in mind, this seems to me to a prime time to do my annual Trip Reports & Race Recaps From The Last Year post. As you are no doubt aware, I have two recap pages in the above navigation bar: one for races and one for trip reports. But if you haven’t been here in awhile, there may well...

The Fairest Week In Review: 7/31

July 31, 2018August 23, 2021Leave a comment

Before ping into the week in review, a quick housekeeping note: back many years ago, when I shared this blog with my girl Moon, we developed two keywords to demarcate our solo posts: Just Jenn and Just Moon. Although Moon left the blog a long time ago, I’ve been continuing to mark most posts as Just Jenn, even though by now that’s going to be a given. Not anymore – the keyword is officially retired. I expect this to have zero impact on anyone at all ever, but I wanted to make note in case unforeseen confusion arose. As far as you know!...

In Which You Might Have Already Seen This Stuff

March 1, 2018August 27, 2021Leave a comment

And now it is time once again for that glorious annual post: the Recap Roundup. Mind you, about six months ago I assembled all my recaps on their own pages: one for races and one for trip reports. But perhaps you didn’t realize or didn’t have time. Or maybe you’ve read all of it but you’re bored and could use a refresher. Or maybe I just wanted a really good excuse to use this gif: Anyway, I get on my bike and ride off… on the grass. Whatever the reason, please enjoy this comprehensive listing of all my multi-day theme...

In Which FRoA is Four & Jenn Isn’t Even There To Celebrate

July 10, 2017September 1, 2021Leave a comment

Hey! Wanna hear something neat? As of Saturday, this blog is four years old! Dang. Wanna hear something else neat? I’m at the beach this week! So rather than a full blog post, I invite you to sit in silence for a minute or two and ponder what Fairest Run of All means to you, on this, its birthday. Here’s one approach. Nah, kidding. I’m just here to say I’m not here. Swing by next week for more exciting content and all the latest on what it’s like running on the boardwalk. (Spoiler alert: nice.) Don’t forget, you can follow...