Author: seanv2
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Your Occasional Stoic: Self-Control and Resistance to Distractions
For Maximus: Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity – especially illness A personality in balance: dignity and grace together Doing your job without whining. Other people’s certainty that what he said was what he thought, and what he did was done without malice. Never taken aback or apprehensive. Neither rash nor hesitant –…
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Numbers Don’t Lie: The Cold Simplicity of Running
“Ultimately, running appealed to me because its quality cannot be defined in terms of anyone’s use or place in a hierarchy or plan. Perfection is fairly and objectively defined by numbers. There are strict levels of excellence that anyone who chooses can easily recognize and aspire to, with the ultimate being a record. There are…
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Diet Failure: More thoughts (and a confession) on antelopes and diets
Last week, with great pomp, I declared that I was going to try to turn myself from an ox into an antelope. When I wrote that, I meant it somewhat facetiously. I know you can’t turn an ox into an antelope and I know I am never going to have the body composition of Ryan…
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Training Totals For the Week Ending August 25, 2014
Run Miles for the week: 47.8 in 7:21:33 Run Miles for the year: 720.8 Projected total miles for the year: 1110.1 Run Streak: 7 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Number of days until I beat my old run streak: 107 Prospect Park loops for the week: 7 Prospect Park loops for…
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Friday Inspiration – The Great New York 100 Mile Exposition Run
I haven’t run an ultra-marathon (yet!) but I’m fascinated by the sport. Through the years that I’ve followed it, the coverage and interest has become more focused on races in the big mountains of the American West and Europe with east coast races getting very little attention. Races like Hardrock and UTMB are incredible in…
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On Turning an Ox Into An Antelope
I come from a long line of oxen. My grandfather John was over six feet tall and tipped the scale at over two hundred pounds of muscle. He boxed in the Irish bars of the Bronx, then settled into a life as a car mechanic and garage owner. He was an ox — the kind…
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The Random Hammer Week That Wasn’t
Last week was supposed to be a big week. We were in Vermont for a much needed vacation and I had plans to run every morning and, heck, even get out for a second run here or there. I was looking for fifty miles for the week. It was going to be awesome. My own…
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Training Totals Week Ending 8.3.2014
Run Miles for the week: 25 in 3:44:24 Run Miles for the year: 619.3 Projected total miles for the year: 1046.5 Run Streak: 7 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Number of days until I beat my old run streak: 107 Prospect Park loops for the week: 2 Prospect Park loops for…
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Training Totals for the Week Ending 7-27-2014
Run Miles for the week: 18.8 in 2:48:30 Run Miles for the year: 586.3 Projected total miles for the year: 1034.1 Run Streak: 0 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Number of days until I beat my old run streak: 114 Prospect Park loops for the week: 3 Prospect Park loops for…
Milo and the Calf 