Author: seanv2
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The BQ(Q) – Kyle B
Name Kyle B Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 27 Height: 6’1″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 145 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Poconos Tell us a little about the race. This was my first time racing at the Poconos (2014) and overall it was my…
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The BQ(Q) – Dewey
Name Dewey Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 47 Height: 5’8″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 154 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? The Louisiana Marathon Tell us a little about the race. Relatively flat course, cold (low 40’s), sunny, breezy. How long had you been running…
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Review: Carson’s Red Doc>
Red Doc> Anne Carson A bit too much. As deeply as I loved Autobiography of Red, and as badly as I wanted to like this this, Red’s kinda sorta sequel, Red Doc> was too avant garde for me. Ostensibly, this is the story of what happened to Geryon, the protagonist of the Autobiography, when he…
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Review: Carson’s Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red Anne Carson Carson’s masterpiece of dysfunctional families, adolescent angst, love, and heart break as told (kinda, sorta) through an interpretation of the missing fragments of Stesichorus’ Geryoneïs and an imagining of was lost to history. It’s a strange book. There is a daring translation of some of what remains of Stesichorus’s work,…
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Totals for the Week Ending 3.15.2016
Run Miles for the week: 28.5 in 4:53:32 Run Miles for the year: 205.5 Projected total run miles for the year: 1016.4 Miles per day/week to reach 2016 miles 6.2/43.4 Bike Miles for the Week: 20.5 in 1:35:18 Bike Miles for the Year: 24.5 Projected total bike miles for the year: 121.2 Miles per day/week…
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The BQ(Q) – Richard Safranik
Name Richard Safranik Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 26 Height: 5’10 Weight (at the time of first BQ): 145 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Houston How long had you been running when you ran your first BQ? 3 Years Did you run in college or high…
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The BQ(Q) Gordon Warren
Name Gordon Warren Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 44 Height: 5′ 11″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 160 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Soldier 2015 Tell us a little about the race. Bad weather conditions (high temp and humidity for November) but I was in…
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The BQ(Q) – David Pinsonneault
Name David Pinsonneault Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 20 Height: 5’8″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 135 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Lehigh Valley Marathon 2012 Tell us a little about the race. I started running to get in shape. I never broke 20:00 for…
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Review: Stesichorus’s Complete works in Greek Lyric
Complete Works of Stesichorus Stesichorus A Greek poet of whom no complete work survives, Stesichorus isn’t someone I’d read if Anne Carson hadn’t used his work for her stunning Autobiography of Red. This complete edition of the poets work has some beautiful parts, and, as all that survives are fragments, it reads like a work…
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The BQ(Q) – Andrew
Name Andrew Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 30 Height: 6’3″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 167 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Philadelphia Tell us a little about the race. I started in the wrong corral so I spent the first 10k passing a ton of…
Milo and the Calf 