Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • The Barkley Marathons

    The Barkley Marathons is* an ultra marathon held in the mountains of Tennessee every spring. It was featured in this award winning documentary (available on netflix) and has fascinating me for years. In its full form, the race consists of five loops of twenty miles each run through unforgiving Frozen Head Park.  That the sixty…

  • Training Totals for the Week Ending 6.9.2014

    Run miles for the week: 24.7 in 3:36:24 Run miles for the year: 397.6 Projected total miles for the year: 907 Run Streak: 12 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 2 Number of days until I beat my old run streak: 102 Prospect Park loops for the week: 3 Prospect Park loops for…

  • Friday Video: Galen Rupp

    This week, after Galen Rupp broke his own American Record at the 10k, I went looking for videos of him online.  For someone labeled by many as the future of American distance running, there is a real paucity of good videos starring Rupp. Is this because Salazar is some weirdo who doesn’t want his runners…

  • Training Totals for the Week Ending 6.1.2014

    Run Miles for the week: 30.3 in 4:27:37 Run Miles for the year: 372.9 Projected Total Miles for the Year: 895.5 Run Streak: 5 Prospect Park Loops: 29 Average Weight: 175   Weekly workout: 4 x hill repeats on the Prospect Park Zoo Hill. Four minutes to get from the base of the hill up…

  • Friday Inspiration: More Run Streakers

    Still thinking about running streaks, still working on my own (3 days!).   Here’s a couple fo videos of people who’ve been at it a bit longer: Charles Holmberg who, when they filmed this cheesy short for a local TV station had also been at it for thirty years. According to the USRSA website his…

  • 16,438 Days Is A Lot Of Running

    Running streaks —  impressive? Stupid? Stupidly impressive? Obsessive and unhealthy or a healthy obsession? Like many runners at different points, I’ve viewed them from different angels.  I’ve found them helpful in getting me out of a rut and hurtful in getting me injured.  I have said that they are stupid and I have said that…

  • Training Totals for the Week Ending 5/25/2014

    Run Miles for the week: 17.7 in 2:36:47 Run Miles for the year: 342.6 Projected Total Miles for the Year: 856.5 Run Streak: 0 Prospect Park Loops: 24       Notes: Recovery week after the Brooklyn Half. My only goal was to get out most days and take it easy.  Training restarts in earnest…

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    Race Autopsy: Brooklyn Half Marathon 2014

    Unless you’re a pro runner with some writing chops, who runs in exotic locales against the best runners in the world, like Dakota Jones, or Sabrina Moran, odds are your race report is tedious and uninteresting to just about everyone but you. Your mom may say she enjoyed reading it, but she’s lying. Still, race…

  • Training Totals for Week Ending 5.18.2014

    Run Miles for the week: 20.7 in 3:06:50 Run Miles for the year: 324.9 in 51:08:14 Projected Total Miles for the Year: 853.2 Run Streak: 2 Prospect Park Loops: 22       Notes: Pseduo taper and then the Brooklyn Half.  I’ll write more about that separately but suffice to say it wasn’t a bad…

  • Training Totals for the week ending 5.11.2014

    Run Miles for the week: 20.5 in 3:04:53 Run Miles for the year: 304.2 Projected Total Miles for the Year: 841.2 Run Streak: 3 Prospect Park Loops: 21   Notes: Last week before the Brooklyn Half – I’m neither totally prepared nor totally unprepared. I am going to look at it (once again) as a…