Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

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    Ellison’s Invisible Man

    Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison It always feels a bit absurd to review a classic, especially one with the profound emotional and political resonance of Invisible Man. I could leave it at this – you need to read this book – but I’ll say a little more. I came to Invisible Man with a bit of…

  • The BQ(Q) – Renee Harden

    “If you don’t have the time to put in at least 50 miles a week it is unlikely that you’ll have the endurance to stay strong all the way through the second half.” I love the bluntness of this response from Renne. Thanks for taking the time to fill this out! Name Renee Harden (@Nayenebug)…

  • The BQ(Q) – JP

    Name JP Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 36 Height: 6’0″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 152 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Colorado Marathon Tell us a little about the race. Cold, snowed for 15 miles, largely downhill course (drops 1,200′), starting at 6,200′ above sea…

  • McCarthy’s The Road

    The Road, Cormac McCarthy A work of genius and among the top ten best books I have ever read. One of two books to make me cry on the subway (Stone Butch Blues being the other). It is, of course, legendarily, unrelentingly, bleak. The story of a man and his son trying to survive in…

  • The BQ(Q) – Aaron

    Name Aaron Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 26 Height: 6’2” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 175 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Columbus Tell us a little about the race. Ran the first 21 miles at 2:40 pace, but crashed and burned the last 5 miles.…

  • Lessons From Re-write

    When my dad was a young reporter, he used to be a stringer for the New York tabloids. He’d work a story, get it down in his notebook and call it in, reading it (including all punctuation and paragraph breaks) to “rewrite” over the phone. The first time he did this, he started reading his…

  • The BQ(Q) – Aaron Heun

    Yeah, ok, Aaron went from couch to sub three hour marathon in 12 weeks… but he had 30,000 miles of base in his legs before that. Thanks, Aaron for sharing your story!  Name Aaron Heun Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 31 Height: 6’1″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 188…

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    S-Town’s John B Mclemore: A Reading List

    Like many, I was completely blown away by the podcast S-Town and deeply moved by the life of its central character, John B McLemore. Being me, I immediately focused in on the books and stories mentioned in the show. Here’s a list (and yeah, its going to reveal some information about the show) Rose for…

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    Top Ten Boston Qualifier Questionnaires

    With the Boston Marathon once more right around the corner, I thought I’d look at more than 200 responses I’ve received to the survey and pick out the top ten most popular responses by regular, everyday people*. Here they are: Tim T (Male, 31) Laura (Female, 25) Abe M (Male, 34) Kristy (Female, 34) Janae…

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    Mailer’s Executioners Song

    Executioners Song Norman Mailer Norman Mailer’s best work. Actually, the only work of his I’ve ever thought was worth the time. A painstakingly reported, and near perfectly executed, telling of the life of Gary Gilmore, the troubled drifter who was the first person to be executed in the United States after the reinstatement of the…