“Dadathoner” …. Welcome Landry Grace

You know how you look forward to an event for a long time?  Weeks and months leading up to a moment that you know will change your life forever.  You think that you are ready for it, as you hear others talk about how it will change you.  Your first kiss, your wedding day, even the [...]

Go Big or Go Home …. NOCC Balance 5K

All of us need a little kick in the pants every now and then.  Friday afternoon was one of those days for me.  Early in the morning Dawn had visited with her Doctor and we learned that little miss Landry was perfectly content inside her Mom’s belly for the time being.  With her due date still [...]

Sean Runs for Dom

September 27, 2009 – 9:06 a.m.  “This twitter feed will keep you updated on my progress in running 2 marathons in 13 days to support my friend Dom Deramo’s cancer battle”.  11 months ago – those were my first words on Twitter.  Who would really be interested I thought?  Today we are closing in on [...]

It’s time for a race.

Picture the scene.  Sun not quite up yet. No sounds except a runner’s feet crunching the stone on the trail. The runner has been running up and down the same hill for just over 40 minutes.  Almost six miles of running, but he has hardly moved an inch. As he reaches the bottom and turns to [...]

Happy Birthday – Garmin 405

This morning, like most, I went through my usual “run-day” rituals. I brushed my teeth, washed my face and hopped onto the bathroom scale to register my “pre-run weight”.  I do this in the summer to make sure I know exactly how much water weight I lose during the course of my run.  This helps [...]

Time to go to work ….

Sunday morning. When I was a small boy, Sunday morning meant heading to St. Colman’s church in Ardmore, PA with my mother.  I would see my boyhood friends there, John Egan, Steve Boschi, Bob Winterle, Bill Cavanaugh and many others. Some of us were altar boys, some of us were not, but it is a [...]

The last 36 Hours for Dom

36 hours is not a lot of time.  If you really think about it, 36 hours doesn’t amount to a whole lot. Not even a full work week. Only a season and a half of 24. I can cover about 288 training miles in 36 hours or run about 10 marathons. But as I sit [...]

Off to Pittsburgh

As my wife hugged and kissed me goodbye I wheeled my carry-on bag into the Austin International Airport this morning. Exactly two weeks ago we went through this very same routine as I was flying to Charleston, SC to be with my good friend Keith and his boys and to pay my respects to their [...]

To Dom ….

Dear Dom – I haven’t written a letter in a very long time.  The last one was probably a letter to Dawn when we were dating, long before e-mail, text messaging, twitter and blogging.  Those were the days when you really had to want to write to someone.  Paper, pen, envelopes, stamps, the whole nine [...]

Dom

At 4:00 p.m. on Sunday I received a phone call that I had been dreading since learning of Dom’s cancer diagnosis almost exactly one year ago.  Our good friend, Husband to Val and Father to Sierra and Nico – Dominic D’Eramo passed away in Pittsburgh after a valiant battle with cancer. Dom who I feel [...]