Author: seanv2
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“speed work”
I have been doing a half assed “speed” work out on Wednesdays for the last couple of week. So far, its just been a fartlek type run on the treadmill. Today, it was this: One Mile warm up at a ten minute mile pace One Mile at a seven and a half minute mile pace…
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Introduction
The Foxhill Review is the name for various projects. Most often use this website as a home for my thoughts on books, occasionally there will be other stuff.
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Today
Four miles in roughly thirty five minutes. I need to buy a stop watch and really start tracking my times more acurately. Perhaps I’ll buy myself a cheap one as a graduation present.
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Shipping out to Boston
Deriba Merga won today’s Boston marathon in a truly amazing time of 2:08:42, beating my best marathon time by roughly three and a half hours. Amazing run Deriba! Other times of note, Salina Kosgei won the women’s division in 2:32:16, Ryan Hall was the fastest American man in 2:09:32 and Kara Goucher was the fastest…
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Feeding the Beast
The plan today was to do 4 sets fo 5 pull ups; 5 dips and 10 push ups and then run three miles, but I was feeling so good, I added another mile and some more random pull ups and push ups. Totals ended up being: 4 miles in 35 minutes 20 dips 60 push…
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PRs
This is an embarrassing post to make, but it has to be done. Here are my PRs for all races run. 5k – 25:16 in the 2009 scopeitout5K 5 miler – 41:43 at the 2008 manchester road race Half marathon – 2:03:11 in the Hartford Half Marathon Olympic distance triathlon – 3:05:00 in the 2006…
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Training numbers for the week ending 4.19.09
Recap – This week I added two more miles to the running, plus the half mile swim. I’m trying to be conservative on how many miles I add a week, cause the last thing I want is to get sidelined by an injury when things are going so well. In the coming days I’ll write…
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Introduction
I have started, abandoned, restarted and abandoned again the idea of writing about fitness in a semi-regular way. I have begun and then ditched three blogs on the subject. All through that time I have run a marathon, done a triathlon, become enamored with crossfit, stopped going to crossfit, gone back to crossfit, and now,…
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Review: Pelecanos’s Hell to Pay
Hell to Pay: A Derek Strange Novel (Derek Strange Novels) George Pelecanos The second book in Pelecanos’s series about P.I. Derek Strange and his sidekick Terry Quinn. Probably even better than the first, this one has less silly shoot ‘em up scenes and more of the grime that is crime in South East D.C. as…
Milo and the Calf 