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KC Cosplay Runner Every run is a fun run if you have fun running! Since March 2020, I run in costumes every week.

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Oktober pop-up 1, 10/22.Eat a Pretzel Day popped up on the checkiday.com menu, and I knew right away I had to rise to th...
10/23/2026

Oktober pop-up 1, 10/22.

Eat a Pretzel Day popped up on the checkiday.com menu, and I knew right away I had to rise to the occasion. Oktoberfest is great, but pretzels aren't a seasonal treat, they're a year-round delight (ask my man Stanley), so I proofed a playlist that holds up any month of the year. Every song falls into one of four lanes: pretzels, things that go on pretzels, things pretzels go with, and things pretzels are part of. Some of the links are salty, a few are a little twisted, and more than one is filled with goodness.

I rolled out from and shaped the route into my best attempt at a knot, with a few extra twists along Nall for good measure. What I didn't knead into the plan was the weather. It was a warm afternoon, and I forgot this suit came with long sleeves, so by Roe I was baking, golden-brown and glistening like I'd just come out of the oven. Happy Eat a Pretzel Day, now let's twist again!

Gather round and lock in, it’s and we’re making decisions. Not all of them get mom’s approval.
10/22/2026

Gather round and lock in, it’s and we’re making decisions. Not all of them get mom’s approval.

When Walt Disney recalled his early childhood in Marceline, MO, and a magical experience built by certain Scarritt Renai...
10/21/2026

When Walt Disney recalled his early childhood in Marceline, MO, and a magical experience built by certain Scarritt Renaissance residents, he carried that spark into Disneyland — the fireworks, the railroad, the living statuary, the bandstand where Sousa once conducted, 100,000 electric lights turning night into day. This , I'm keeping a strong secret, even if carrying it is no small feat. Can you lift the veil on what inspired the Happiest Place on Earth?

The Runway Report - Week 341, Oct. 17. Garmin KC half marathon.Most years, this fountain spends race morning parked in a...
10/19/2026

The Runway Report - Week 341, Oct. 17. Garmin KC half marathon.

Most years, this fountain spends race morning parked in a black granite ellipse on Pershing Road, letting the half marathon flow past a few blocks away. This year, the fountain took the KC Streetcar from a downtown overnight to the Plaza stop, picking up runners from Iowa, Michigan, and Texas on the way, which is a solid out-of-state return before the start line. On Friday I met a Wisconsin runner at my chiropractor who is chasing all 50 states, so consider Missouri itemized. After a tornado warning Tuesday and brutal winds Friday, Saturday came in absolutely perfect, and nobody appreciates still air like a fountain.

Last year’s return on this course was a débâcle, but comebacks are the family business around here. Union Station Kansas City behind me opened October 30, 1914, closed entirely in 1985, and reopened November 10, 1999 with Science City, saved when residents of five Kansas and Missouri counties passed a bistate 1/8-cent sales tax to restore it. Then H&R Block co-founder Henry Bloch gifted me to the city in 2001. So the station was rescued by a tax, and I was paid for by the guy who did everybody’s taxes. On every hour and half-hour I put on a five-minute high show; Saturday was my show.

This was a “B” race with no time goal, and I still crushed my 2025 time by almost 40 minutes, good for my fastest half of 2026. That’s not a refund, that’s an amended return. Mr. Bloch built a business on getting Kansas City its money back; Saturday I just got my 40 minutes back. Filed on time, no extension needed. My ledger with City of Fountains Foundation at Garmin Kansas City Marathon stays in the black!

Up next: My return to the Cliff Hanger Run 8K will be a strong one: first time this character shows off at a race.
Pieces/ Parts: KCM blue HTV on black, lines taken from the Station's architectural rendering. Fountain jets from iridescent mesh tubing, half of them with a strand of fairy lights inside.
By the Numbers: 333 unique costumes/combos in 341 races, 215 solo runs, and 16 group runs = 572 costumed runs

10/14/2026

For 112 years, Kansas City has gathered at Union Station Kansas City to celebrate, remember, and sometimes mourn. From doughs and joes to fans from around the world, we've come to this place over and over again.
The City of Fountains Foundation entry is only a small part, but between this and the Garmin Kansas City Marathon, the shine flows into a sparkle.

10/14/2026

For 112 years, Kansas City has gathered at Union Station Kansas City to celebrate, remember, and sometimes mourn. From doughs and joes to fans from around the world, we’ve come to this place over and over again. The City of Fountains Foundation entry is only a small part, but between this and the Garmin Kansas City Marathon, the shine flows into a sparkle.

The Runway Report - Week 340, race 2 of 2, Oct. 11. Bill Cross 5K.Class is in session. The Bill Cross 5K had me repeatin...
10/12/2026

The Runway Report - Week 340, race 2 of 2, Oct. 11. Bill Cross 5K.

Class is in session. The Bill Cross 5K had me repeating a grade, literally: two laps through the shopping and parking, including a decently steep down and up at the edge of the map that put both my geography and my physics to the test, twice. Taking attendance, I counted a few more colleagues on the roster at this one, so the faculty lounge was well staffed. Extra credit to everyone who showed up.

Administrative notes. I didn’t turn in my permission slip on time, so no t-shirt for me, and nobody but the top age-group finishers got a medal at all, so the honor roll was short. For the record, Mama Cosplay Runner, the resident English major, granted special dispensation to hollow out the 1979 thesaurus on the condition that I recycle the removed pages, which kept it from going down as a Word Crime. I also pushed too close to the deadline and turned this one in at rough draft status: the metal pieces on the lanyard clanked with every. single. step. That’s a School of Rock percussion section nobody signed up for.

Easy effort, but don't pass that note to my heartrate. Lesson plan for next semester: turn in the permission slip, submit the final draft, and remember the hill is always on the test. Class dismissed.

Up next: Another grand-scale flourish incoming at Garmin Kansas City half, but listen to me gush. That's got to be taxing.
Pieces/ Parts: Copied off other costumes' homework except I told mom at the last minute I needed a calculator and a hollow book.
By the Numbers: 332 unique costumes/combos in 340 races, 215 solo runs, and 16 group runs = 571 costumed runs

The Runway Report - Week 340, race 1 of 2, Oct. 10. Julia's Warriors Run for Hope.Rose and shined (shone?) with time to ...
10/11/2026

The Runway Report - Week 340, race 1 of 2, Oct. 10. Julia's Warriors Run for Hope.

Rose and shined (shone?) with time to spare and coral-ed a parking spot so choice it could’ve fit a Pink Cadillac. Totally tubular start. Today was another one of those gnarly days with a race on every corner and no one big bash pulling the whole crew together, so should I stay or should I go? Stay, fer sure. This one’s in the Northland, and I kind of almost, like, live in Smithville anyway, so supporting Julia’s Warriors was a cerise-ly obvious call.

The pics you see are my warmup, courtesy of Runna. My coach-in-a-phone had 8.5 hilly miles on the docket, so I got physical with 1.4 to start, scoping out the hoopla from a distance while the lakeside filled up in bubblegum, blush, and flamingo. Like, gag me with a spoon, that’s a lot of hills before the gun even goes off, but if you’re not feeling the burn, you’re not doing it right.

Then came the 5K, plus four more miles to close out the long run, because when Runna says keep going, I’m hungry like the wolf for every last tenth. With so many races splitting the crowd, I only spotted two run friends, but in a sea of raspberry and rose, two familiar faces is a magenta-ficent haul. Nothing’s gonna stop us now, not the hills and not the bonus miles. Radical morning, Smithville. Pretty in pink from start to fuchsia-nish.

Up next: Parking lots close at race start tomorrow, so don't be tardy to the Bill Cross 5K at Zona Rosa
Pieces/ Parts: The funnn shack is a little old place we get costumes on Amazon!
By the Numbers: 331 unique costumes/combos in 339 races, 215 solo runs, and 16 group runs = 570 costumed runs

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