Author: seanv2
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Training Totals 3.29.10
RECAP: 15 miles. Yeah, it hurt a little at the end, but generally, I felt pretty good. I have run well over a hundred mile in Prospect Park, from my first couple of miles in training for my first marathon to these fifteen. It felt great to do a strong long run there on a…
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Friday Inspiration
This is a big weekend for me. For the first time in well over six months, I am planning on doing a fifteen mile run tomorrow. I’m more than a little nervous about it. Under fifteen – no big deal; Fifteen and over – hurts. So, to get myself excited, I am re instituting Friday…
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Interesting Gers: Jamaica Kincaid
This weeks interesting ger is Jamaica Kincaid, African American novelist, big time gardener, and convert to Judaism. Kincaid who is probably most famous for her novels Lucy and Annie John hasn’t spoken much in public about her conversion. I read a number of pieces by Kincaid in college, but never once heard she was Jewish…
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Where my conversion stands
Since I stopped updating regularly here, I’ve taken substantial steps toward converting in the conservative movement. I’ll give you a recap of how all this went down. First, around the time of my last post, I had started attending conversion class with a conservative rabbi h ere in the D.C. It was a great experience.…
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Five Months
Five months is a long time. A lot has happened, an awful lot. At first I thought I would use this space to talk about the trials and tribulations of conversion. What worried me about the prospect and what excited me. But I got cold feet. By the third post, this blog was getting alot…
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Training Totals for 3.21.10
RECAP: The Good –Beautiful weekend here in the nation’s capital. I did a twelve mile long run this Saturday in under two hours. I felt strong throughout and think that I’ll probably be using cliff shot blocks as my on the run nutrition from here on out. The Bad – While my running was strong…
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Training Totals 3.14.10
RECAP: Crossing the line between working out less than five hours a week and more than five hours a week is big. Most anyone can work in less than five hours of exercise into their week without too much trouble. More than five hours – that means you’re giving up other shit. This week, I…
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Training Totals 3.7.2010
RECAP: A busy, busy week with work, packing and moving most of what I own to NY. (E is living in NY, and I living in D.C. for the next six months. Since NY will be our permanent home, most of our furniture is now up there with her). I was able to get my…
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Seventies Running Hero: Katherine Switzer
The seventies were about short shorts, and running mega mileage, but they were also about the changing nature of the sport of marathoning. No one exemplifies that more than Katherine Switzer. Katherine Switzer is because was the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, she did it in 1967, finishing in a time of…
Milo and the Calf 