Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • Seventies Heroes: Ron Hill

    The science of running, especially the science of marathon running, was still in its infancy in the 1970s.  Runners knew little about what it took to run a fast 26.2 miles.  With little support from the big athletic companies or research universities, runners were left to experiment on their own.  Some tried low mileage and…

  • Park Legends: Luis Rios

    Park Legends: Luis Rios Park Legends – An occasional series of posts on people I see often on my runs in Prospect Park. The first time I saw Luis Rios in Prospect Park, I wasn’t sure if he was a runner.  Louis has a longish beard, and was, if memory serves, wearing jeans and a…

  • Back at it

    I’m back from two weeks in Turkey and Greece, an amazing trip full of history, culture, great food, and a little running.  I’d plan to run three times a week, but surprise, surprise that didn’t happen.  I did swim in the Aegean for a week straight, so that has to count for something.  No point…

  • Seventies Hero: Katherine Switzer

    To many, Boston Billy was the laid back face of seventies running, just a guy who loved to run and happened, through hard work and a whole heck of a lot of miles, to get really good at it.  But there was more to the glory days of running than short shorts and awesome wool…

  • JFK to Istanbul, direct.

    Tomorrow I leave for a two week vacation in Turkey and Greece.  The first four days will be taken up with a wedding after that E and I are free to explore Istanbul, Ephesus, Bodrum, Symi, Kos and Athens as we choose.  I am incredibly excited.  This will be my first time in the Mediterranean…

  • Numbers 7.30-8.5

    Numbers 7.30-8.5 Total Hours of Exercise: ~8 Running : 16.6 miles in ~2:52:02 Cycling Time: 16.2 miles in ~1:10:24 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:05 Climbing ~3:00 Other 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: 0:00 Comments: Feeling really good about my training right now, I think I’m definitely on the mend with my…

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    Michael Phelps, the drudgery of swimming, and me.

    I swam competitively from elementary school through high school and I can say with some authority that swim practice is unspeakable boring.  Racing can be fun, but training is just the worst.  It isn’t like true team sports, where you can shoot the shit with your teammates on the field, and it isn’t like running,…

  • 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…