Milo and the Calf

Month: October 2012

  • Commuter Ethics in a Disaster Zone

    I’ve lived in New York through September 11th the black out of 2003, the transit strike of 2005, and now Hurricane Sandy.  In the days after those events, I’ve ridden my bike many times through a downtown Manhattan without power.  One thing has always been true – people behave better. New York can be an…

  • A Post Hurricane Run

    I am lucky enough to live in a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Prospect Heights.  Heights is in the name for a reason- we’re on relatively high ground and far outside the evacuations zones.  All we saw from Hurricane Sandy were a couple of downed trees and some blown over signs.  We were very, very lucky. …

  • The Long Run – Two Bridges

    Considering the week I’d had, I was feeling pretty good when Joe from Movement Movement and I started out on a 13 miler on Saturday afternoon.  It was down Gates avenue to Bedford, then Bedford through the Satmar portion of Williamsburg and up and over the Williamsburg bridge down the Eastside greenway back over the…

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    Friday Inspiration – Jordan Jovtchev, rings training, and getting old

    I can only post videos of skinny guys running in circles for so many week before its time for a change.  This week, let’s watch some videos of a Jordan Jovtchev* the 39 year old Bulgarian gymnast who competed in his sixth Olympic games this year in London. As an old dude, I always root…

  • The BQ(Q) – Tim T

    I met Tim at a Running Ahead meet up after last year’s New York City Marathon.  He struck me as a smart guy with good taste in beer.  His thoughtful response to this questionnaire proves I was right.  If you’re interested in what makes runners run, you’re going to want to read this one, especially…

  • The End of the Barefoot Running Craze?

    If who I see running loops in parks, and number of threads on running message boards, are any indication, barefoot running seems to have finally moved from all consuming fad to persistent running subgenre.  Good.  I’m happy to have barefoot running at the fringes where I can celebrate the eccentrics who do it well without…

  • A Final Stand Against Bourgeois Normalacy

    Attention conservation notice: Total navel gazing, nothing of substance here. There was a time when I lived in a punk house in San Francisco.  I worked thirty to forty hours a week loading trucks and the rest of my time was my own.  I spent it in doing political organizing, reading, traveling, going to rock…

  • The BQ(Q) – Julie B

    Thanks for filling this out Julie, I hope you and Jeff can get you to a new PR at Boston this year! Name: Julie B Sex: Female Age (at the time of first BQ): 38 Height: 5’6” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 115 At which marathon did you get your first BQ?  What…

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    Training Totals – 10/15-10/21

    Numbers   Total Hours of Exercise: ~6.5 Running : 30 miles in 5:07:57 Cycling: 4 miles in 22:19 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): 00:10:00 Climbing ~1:0:00 Other 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: 0:35:00 Comments: Good week for running, mediocre week for everything else.  Work is just too fucking busy to get everything…

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    The Long Run – Battle Hill

    I haven’t run more than ten miles in over six months, so I knew today’s twelve miler was going to be a bit of a suffer fest.  It was – twelve miles in 2:15:40 is pathetic, but it’s a start. My goal was pretty simple – run twelve easy miles and find the highest point…