Author: seanv2
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Friday Inspiration – Skinny Dude Climbing v16
Speaking of skinny dudes, check out this amazing video of Adam Ondra* climbing two different V16 routes: For those keeping track at home, Ondra is 5′ 11″, weighs a whooping 128 pounds and is all of twenty years old. As is obvious from this video, he is among the best climbers in the world. What…
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Losing It
Yesterday, I ran. But only three miles. No real pain and no need to rush things. After that, I spent about forty five minutes on push-ups, pull-ups, handstands, stretches and balance drills. it was low key, and it was fun. Last night was exactly the kind of thing I’m interested in right now. Long term,…
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Race Recap – Hartford Half Marathon
This hasn’t been my best training cycle, but it hasn’t been my worst, either. I got in a decent number of long runs, and some tempo work but my mileage was never consistently very high. In the two weeks before the Hartford Half Marathon, a niggling ache in my right ankle, and work commitments, kept…
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25,000 Hits
Sometime over the weekend, Milo and the Calf received its 25,000th hit. The vast majority of those hits have been to the Boston Qualifying Questionnaire responses with Abe M being the most popular male and Kristy from Run the Long Road being the most popular female. I haven’t added any new entries to the BQ(Q) in some…
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Your Occasional Stoic: The Emperor and the Martyrs of the Republic
From Serverus: to love my family, truth and justice. It was through him that I encountered Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion and Brutus, and conceived of a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and of speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else. And from him as…
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Wanting it
Two days until I race in a 5k in Prospect Park and a little more than a week until the Hartford half marathon. These races cannot come soon enough. I’m going a little crazy here. I’m burnt out on running, and wondering why I feel this obligation to continue a hobby which really isn’t bringing…
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Training Totals Week Ending 8-8-2013
A gorgeous week in the mountains of Vermont has come to an end. Now I am back at my desk, watching the sunset over midtown. It was fun while I lasted. I didn’t hit fifty miles for the week, but I did get in some serious time on my feet including a decent eight…
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The Long Run – The City Slicker In Nature
I have spent my entire adult life living in urban environments. In those years, I’ve spent very little time in nature. I spend most of my time pounding the pavement of the streets of New York. New York City is my home, and the urban landscape is where I am most comfortable. I love the…
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The Return of the Training Totals
The statistics page for this website makes clear that no one cares about my weekly training totals.* That’s ok, if I was in this for the hit count I’d be posting about sideboobs and Miley Cyrus, not ultrarunning and ancient cultures. Anyway, for the seven or eight of you who care how I spent my…
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Friday Inspiration – In the Mountains
Tomorrow E and I head up to Stowe, Vermont for some much needed R&R. I’m looking forward to running the trails there and hopefully finally making the time to summit Mount Mansfield. One of the largest ultra race in the world, the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc, is also this weekend. At around a hundred miles…
Milo and the Calf 