Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • Number 7.16-7.22

    Numbers 7.16-7.22 Total Hours of Exercise: ~5 Running : 13.7 miles in ~2:28 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:00 Climbing ~1:20 Other (hiking) 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: ~0:50 Comments: Tough, tough week – my grandmother passed away unexpectedly.  She lived a full and wonderful life, leaving behind 13…

  • Life and the Busy Athlete

    There are twenty four hours in a day.  Subtract eight for sleep, then eleven for work.  That leaves five.  Take away another hour and a half for eating, commuting, showering, and taking care of life’s little annoyances, and you’re left with three hours a day, on average, to live life. That isn’t a hell of…

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    Numbers 7.9.2012 – 7.15.2012

    Numbers 7.9-7.15 Total Hours of Exercise: ~8:30 Running : 11.6 miles in ~1:50 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:30 Climbing ~3:40 Other (hiking) 4.5 miles ~1:30 (5 pound pack) Hebrew Study Time: ~0:45 Comments: Running is coming along pretty nicely, a little tightness in Achilles, but nothing too…

  • The Trial of Miles

    I’m running again, slowly, very slowly.  And not particularly far, just 3.5 miles, three times a week.  It’s going to be a long road back to fitness, and of course I am reminded of this quote from the greatest book ever written on distance running, Once a Runner: “And too there were the questions: What…

  • Numbers 6.18-6.24

    Numbers 6.18-6.24 Total Hours of Exercise: ~3:00 Running Time: ~1:30 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~2:10 Climbing ~1:15 Other (hiking) ~1:45 Hebrew Study Time: ~01:00 Comments: Running went well, but everything else suffered at the hands of the all powerful god of work.  I’m billing like a beast…

  • Numbers: 6-10-2012 to 6-16-2012

    Numbers Total Hours of Exercise: ~5:40:00 Running Time: ~1:30:00 Cycling Time: ~00:15:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (encompassing climbing, stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~2:10:00 Other (hiking) ~1:45 Hebrew Study Time: 00:00:00   Comments: Finally back at the running game and will slowly, slowly, be making my way back. (again). After a number of strong weeks,…

  • Running Again

    I started the long road back to running this week – 3.5 miles of run walk combination completed in 38:40 for an average of a 12:54 mile. It was slow, it was boring, but it was running, pain free running and it has been a long, long time since I have run without pain. At…

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    Running Again

    I started the long road back to running this week – 3.5 miles of run walk combination completed in 38:40 for an average of a 12:54 mile. It was slow, it was boring, but it was running, pain free running and it has been a long, long time since I have run without pain. At…

  • Training Update

    It is Thursday and I haven’t done a weekly recap yet, that should tell you what kind of a week it has been.  Nonstop work-a-thon and it shows no sign of letting up.  The only night I got out at a reasonable time was yesterday, and thankfully I had good session at the climbing gym.…

  • Your Occasional Stoic – The Same Man

    From Apollonius: moral freedom, the certainty to ignore the dice of fortune, and have no other perspective, even for a moment, than that of reason alone; to be always the same man, unchanged in sudden pain, in the loss of a child, in lingering sickness; to see clearly in his living example that a man…