Category: Friday Inspiration
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Friday Inspiration – More Thoughts On Running Everyday
Today was the 31 first day in a row that I ran at least one mile. In the world of streak running, that’s nothing. The United States Streak Runners Association lists multiple people with streaks of over forty years. But for me, it’s been a challenge to get out there every day and run. It…
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Friday Video: Training the Mind
“It is easy to the train the legs, it is difficult to train the mind”. So says Anaco Garcia in this beautifully shot little movie about running. Its true. To run at our best we need to carve away, mile by mile, day by day, at our legs. We need to shape them into engines…
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Friday Video: Galen Rupp
This week, after Galen Rupp broke his own American Record at the 10k, I went looking for videos of him online. For someone labeled by many as the future of American distance running, there is a real paucity of good videos starring Rupp. Is this because Salazar is some weirdo who doesn’t want his runners…
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Friday Inspiration: More Run Streakers
Still thinking about running streaks, still working on my own (3 days!). Here’s a couple fo videos of people who’ve been at it a bit longer: Charles Holmberg who, when they filmed this cheesy short for a local TV station had also been at it for thirty years. According to the USRSA website his…
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Friday Inspiration – Gutting it Out
For weeks now, people have been talking about Meb Keflezighi gutting it out in the final miles of the New York Marathon and crossing the line with local Staten Island runner Mike Cassidy. If you read this blog, you probably already know this story – Meb has battled injuries all fall and wasn’t a hundred…
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Friday Inspiration – The Elusive Handstand
This is cheesy, and corny, and totally inspiring. Give it a watch. And yes, I’m still working on my handstand, I think I need to double down on the practice.
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Friday Inspiration – New York Kid on the Road
I’ll admit it, I’ve got some hometown pride associated with the success of Ashima Shiraishi. She’s a New York kid, she climbs regularly at my gym, and she rules. In fact, just this week I saw Ashima crushing it at Brooklyn Boulders. She’s gotten so much taller in the last year, and her climbing continues…
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Friday Inspiration – Skinny Dude Climbing v16
Speaking of skinny dudes, check out this amazing video of Adam Ondra* climbing two different V16 routes: For those keeping track at home, Ondra is 5′ 11″, weighs a whooping 128 pounds and is all of twenty years old. As is obvious from this video, he is among the best climbers in the world. What…
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Friday Inspiration – In the Mountains
Tomorrow E and I head up to Stowe, Vermont for some much needed R&R. I’m looking forward to running the trails there and hopefully finally making the time to summit Mount Mansfield. One of the largest ultra race in the world, the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc, is also this weekend. At around a hundred miles…
Milo and the Calf 