Author: seanv2
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Some Personal Reflections on Revs and New York in the 90s
I have been obsessed with Revs since I moved to New York in the mid nineties. He, more than anyone else of the era, took “street art” to the next level and to this day when I think of my early days in New York City, I think of Revs. Anyone who frequented downtown New…
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More of Cicero, Milo and the Brains versus Brawn Narrative
I’m continuously adding to the page of classical sources of the Milo stories and as I do so, the narrative of Milo as the big dumb jock is becoming more and more apparent. So far, in my reading, Cicero is the biggest proponent: Whoever has a reasonable portion of strength, and exerts it to the…
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Review: Epictetus’s Enchiridon and Discourses
Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Epictetus. Freed slave, logician, and stoic, is one of the many classical writers more often referenced than read. Epictetus’s name is bandied frequently when the subject of stoicism comes up. His writings were extremely influential on Marcus Aurealius (some of the writing attributed to Epictetus exists only in quotation…
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Ann Yearsley – Poet, Mother, Abolitionist, Classicist
Ann Yearsley was an 18th century milk woman, farmer’s wife and the mother of six children. She was also a poet, an auto-didactic classicists, and a fierce abolitionist. She was, in other words, completely amazing. Yearley was born in a poor family in the Bristol and taught to read and write by her parents. While…
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Review: Alberto Salazar’s 14 Minutes
14 Minutes: A Running Legend’s Life and Death and Life I’ve been meaning to write something up about Alberto Salazar’s memoir for sometime, but now, with Salazar in the news, it seems like the right time. Salazar was the most dominant marathon runner of his time — winning New York in 1980,81 and 82 and…
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Totals for the week ending 7-5-2015
Run Miles for the week: 28.3 in 4:36:48 Run Miles for the year: 761 Projected total run miles for the year: 1485.4 Weekly/Daily Average to reach 2k miles 7/49.3 Run Streak: 0 Did I hit every session of 18/55? N What did I miss? A 4 mile recovery run Runs that were one stupid…
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18 Weeks Out
So here I am, 18 weeks out from the New York City Marathon (NYCM) and its time to make a decision regarding my training. Will I shoot for the moon again, or take a more earth bound course? Mega miles, or miles and speed? The eternal debate in Sean’s world of running, and one I…
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Totals for the week ending 6.28.2015
Run Miles for the week: 34.1 in 5:25:29 Run Miles for the year: 732.8 Projected total miles for the year: 1494.3 Weekly/Daily averages to reach 2015 run miles 48.3/6.9 Run Streak: 0 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: n/a Days until I beat my old run streak: n/a Prospect Park loops for the…
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Friday Inspiration: Western States Orginal
The grand daddy of American ultra races, the Western States 100, is this weekend. Irunfar has extensive coverage planned, which I’ll be following religiously. I’d love to see Rob Krar and Alex Varner do well, but its a long race, and there are a lot of talented runners out there. Should be a good race.…
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Milo: Brains versus Brawn
Classic’s professor Tom Stevenson has written a fascinating piece* parsing the ancient sources for a true record of how many Olympic wins Milo had – was it six… or seven? The whole article is worth a read, if ancient history is your thing, but this part from the introduction really stuck with me: [Milo] became…
Milo and the Calf 