Author: seanv2
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Online Running Logs
Like most runners, I obsessively track my mileage. For a while now I have been using Runningahead, and I love it. I’d recommend it to anyone. The message boards are hilarious and informative and the interface is easy. I’ve played around some with dailymile, and have an account there which I am trying to update…
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Training Totals: 5.16.2010
RECAP: The taper for my spring marathon has begun, and so far, so good. A Saturday long run of twelve miles is a heck of a lot more reasonable than a 22 miler. It was nice to feel like I could have handled more. Weight stayed constant this week, which is a little bit of…
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500
I wasn’t much, just a quick jog around the neighborhood, but I hit five hundred miles for the year this morning, two months earlier than I hit the same milestone last year. I’m feeling good, I’m feeling healthy and I’m feeling ready for my marathon at the end of the month. Now, check out this…
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Training Totals 5.9.2010
RECAP: 48 miles is a lot of running. Its Tuesday and I am still exhausted. But now its taper time and man am I looking forward to it. Saturday’s long run started off great, for the first fifteen miles or so, I felt strong and fast. I Rahm Emanuel, I kept a good pace and…
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Once a Runner
The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials? – Once a Runner I started reading John Parker’s Once a Runner this week, and I can’t understand…
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Training Totals 5.2.2010
RECAP: Not every week can be great. Sometimes, the body just needs a break, and this week was one of those weeks. Even though I decided to cut my long run down from 18 to 15 miles, I still feel ok about this week. My left foot which was giving me a lot of trouble…
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Friday Inspiration: Pre
This hasn’t been the best week running wise for me. I’m battling this bruising in my foot, plus a cold. All around, not great. But I’m still getting in some of the mile, and I still have a 18 mile long run planned for this weekend. We’ll see how this goes. To get me pumped,…
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Training Totals 4.25.10
RECAP: 41.5 miles. Over six hours on my feet. That, my friends, is a lot of running. The goal for the week was 43 miles, but life got in the way (wedding venues!) and I had to cut the Saturday run really short. Whatever, I’m still proud. This is the most miles I have ever…
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Progress
Yesterday I wrote a short post about how I hadn’t heard from my Rabbi about my conversion essay and then, hours after posting, I got a reply. Rabbi, are you reading my blog? Anyway, he seemed to like the essay and had no real edits of it, so we’re on for a meeting with the…
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Friday Inspiration
This week was the Boston Marathon. Robert K Cheruiyot won it in a new course record of 2:05:52; Teyba Erkesso won the women’s field in 2:26:11. Here’s a clip of the finishes, Teyba Erkesso’s win is by far the more dramatic. For some reference, I ran a fifteen mile training run last sunday in 2:19:00,…
Milo and the Calf 