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The Chicago Hustle is a stair climb up what used to be called the John Hancock Center in Chicago. This building was renamed a few years ago, and technically it is no longer called the Hancock. The annual stair climb was also renamed when the Hancock building lost its real name, going from Hustle up the Hancock to the Chicago Hustle. The Hustle is 94 floors. Each climber is assigned a wave, and my wave had a 2:00pm start time. I arrived at the Hancock around 1:15pm, dropped oO a backpack at a Hilton hotel across the street where there…

Chapter drafts continued and subject to change. 3. The Chimes It’s dark. The Old Meeting House bell is chiming – one…two…three…four…five…six…  Time to get up. Stoney pulls back the covers, plants his bare feet on the chilly pine floor, steadies himself, takes three cautious steps toward the bathroom door thinking,   Did I hear the chimes at two and three?  Slides the glass door shut. Raindrops splatter on the back deck. Faint moonlight illuminates the tenuous snow cover on the lake. Louise rolls over and pulls up the covers. Awake, expectant but still a little groggy, Mookie waits patiently curled up…

UVRC Runners, This offering is a sampling from a fictional novel I am in the process of writing entitled, The Winds of Change. It’s a story about running for runners. Below, I have included the drafts of the Prologue and the first two chapters entitled, 1. El Amuleto and 2. A Sacred Place.  In the story, runners from the Upper Valley and Puerto Rico converge to run the Vermont 100 Ultramarathon in 2025. It’s a tale about, endurance, resilience and persistence, but also about temptation, greed and loss. I am happy to share more chapters during the next five months…