Milo and the Calf

Month: July 2012

  • Numbers 7.23-7.29

    Numbers 7.23-7.29 Total Hours of Exercise: ~7.5 Running : 14.7 miles in ~2:22:59 Cycling Time: 13.2 miles in ~1:00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:15 Climbing ~3:00 Other (hiking) 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: ~2:00 Comments: Great week, the running is coming along well.  I am still terribly slow, but the Achilles…

  • Friday Inspiration

    With the start of the Olympics, I wanted to share a video of the day in the life of Olympian, and personal inspiration, Meb Keflezighi.  Here he working it on a twelve mile tempo run three weeks before the olympic trials. Meb is exactly my age, (37) and it makes me so damn happy to…

  • Your Occasional Stoic – Wearing Learning Lightly

    From Sextus: A kindly disposition, and the pattern of a household governed by the paterfamilias; the concept of life lived according to nature; an unaffected dignity; intuitive concern for his friends; tolerance both of ordinary people and of the emptily opinionated; an agreeable manner with all, so that the pleasure of his conversation was greater…

  • Number 7.16-7.22

    Numbers 7.16-7.22 Total Hours of Exercise: ~5 Running : 13.7 miles in ~2:28 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:00 Climbing ~1:20 Other (hiking) 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: ~0:50 Comments: Tough, tough week – my grandmother passed away unexpectedly.  She lived a full and wonderful life, leaving behind 13…

  • Life and the Busy Athlete

    There are twenty four hours in a day.  Subtract eight for sleep, then eleven for work.  That leaves five.  Take away another hour and a half for eating, commuting, showering, and taking care of life’s little annoyances, and you’re left with three hours a day, on average, to live life. That isn’t a hell of…

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    Numbers 7.9.2012 – 7.15.2012

    Numbers 7.9-7.15 Total Hours of Exercise: ~8:30 Running : 11.6 miles in ~1:50 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:30 Climbing ~3:40 Other (hiking) 4.5 miles ~1:30 (5 pound pack) Hebrew Study Time: ~0:45 Comments: Running is coming along pretty nicely, a little tightness in Achilles, but nothing too…

  • The Trial of Miles

    I’m running again, slowly, very slowly.  And not particularly far, just 3.5 miles, three times a week.  It’s going to be a long road back to fitness, and of course I am reminded of this quote from the greatest book ever written on distance running, Once a Runner: “And too there were the questions: What…