As I reported in my previous blog post, last year my friend Cam persuaded me to participate in Ragbrai – a weeklong bike adventure across...

Twenty-one years ago, in September 2003, I received a mailer from the University of Chicago’s Graham School, inviting me to sign up for...

I don’t want to bury the lede. This story doesn’t end well. Last summer my friend Cam asked me if I would be interested in a weeklong...

On July 9, 2005 I entered my first multisport race – The Splash, Pedal, Dash Sprint Triathlon in Schaumburg, Illinois. Earlier that year...

I ran in the very first Shamrock Shuffle on March 16, 1980. It didn’t look like that picture. We ran through Lincoln Park and there were...

March 8, 2022 - Len Joy interviewed on the Tom Sumner Program about his new novel, Dry Heat. Click here for the recording: ...

This short story was originally published in The Short Story Library. Casualties The waitress refills my coffee. It’s five after eight...

With the Cubs having traded away all of their star players their prospects for the remainder of the season look bleak. Not bleak, like...

Yesterday I raced in the USAT National Sprint Championship in Milwaukee. It rained most of the night but the weather was perfect by the...

Since 2009 I have qualified and competed in USAT National Championships for Olympic and Sprint Distance Triathlons in Tempe, Cleveland,...

My new novel, DRY HEAT, will be published March 2022. Check out the book trailer!

Check out the new book trailer for Everyone Dies Famous: https://youtu.be/_GtXmYJimbA

This is a piece I wrote for Father's Day a few years back. I thought I would recycle it here in memory of my father and father-in-law,...

My countdown is now officially over. I got lucky with this race photo – my race number is on more or less straight, my running form is...

It has been 18 months since my last multi-sport race and 11 years and six months since I raced in Tuscaloosa. That was my first USAT...

Yesterday was the longest workout I've had: a 12 hour drive from Evanston to Tuscaloosa. It would have been under 11 hours but coach...

Just a few more days of workouts. Today we did a lot of stretching and flexibility work. This is a pike press exercise where I walk my...

Today is my 70th birthday and one week from today I will be racing at Tuscaloosa, so I thought this would be a good day to look back at...

It was a beautiful sunny day for my bike workout, except it was only 48 degrees, which is thirty degrees cooler than Tuscaloosa. The...

In two weeks I'll be in Tuscaloosa getting ready for the weekend of racing. Yesterday's workout was a practice duathlon at shorter...