Author: seanv2
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The waiting is the hardest part
For me, the conversion process has been a lot of hurry up and wait. I submitted my conversion essay to my rabbi over a month ago and have yet to get any feedback on it. I spoke with him on the phone earlier this week, and he admitted not having looked at it. Passover and…
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The Outer Edges
As I have written here earlier, I’m obsessed with running. I am thinking constantly about the science of training, about running history, and perhaps most significantly, the outer edges of the sport. Ultra marathons, running streaks, running cults, mega mileage runners, I love it all. I may be a middle of the pack average runner…
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Training Totals
RECAP: I think I need to face up to the fact that for right now, as long as I am getting in my scheduled runs, I should really be too upset about not hitting my total workout time goals. Work is busy, I travel every weekend, and really, all that is important to me right…
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Friday Inspiration
Boston Marathon, 1982. Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley dueling in out in the final stretch. Next to Katherin Switzer, this is probably the most famous story in the history of Boston. Watch it in very grainy footage below, and good luck to everyone running Boston!
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It is safe to say that I am obsessed with running. Really, truly obsessed. I think about it all the time. I want to read about it all the time and I want to actually be doing it all the time. I promised myself at the start of this year that I would not make…
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Training Totals: 5.11.2010
RECAP: I guess it is a good sign if what I am disappointed about in a week is not that I didn’t get my runs in, but that I didn’t feel good on (some) of the runs. I think packing more miles onto my long run week after week has finally caught up with me…
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50 Days
First, I over slept. Then, I had to work late, but finally, late last night, I headed out the door for five miles and reached little mini milestone. I had run fifty days in a row. I know streaking is a controversial topic in the running community. People think running distances of less than three…
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Training Totals: 4.4.10
RECAP: Well, life got the better of me this week. I was in New York for Passover for part of the week and then in Connecticut for Easter for the other part (I’m in an interfaith relationship, the spring gets complicated). I made my running goals for the week, but little else, and fell far…
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Friday Inspiration
So, I have another fifteen miler planned for this weekend. I’ll be doing it on Saturday on the back roads near my parents house in Connecticut. I feel much more confident about this week than I did about last week, but not as confident as Haile Gebrsellassi looks in this video winning the Berlin marathon…
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Marathon Autopsy: The Training
In 2005, I ran my first and (so far) only marathon, the New York City Marathon. It was a total disaster. I was undertrained and suffered serious gastrointestinal issues on the course. I finished in an extremely disappointing five hours and forty five minutes. Now, as I am deep into the training for my next…
Milo and the Calf 