Milo and the Calf

Category: Friday Inspiration

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    500

    I wasn’t much, just a quick jog around the neighborhood, but I hit five hundred miles for the year this morning, two months earlier than I hit the same milestone last year. I’m feeling good, I’m feeling healthy and I’m feeling ready for my marathon at the end of the month. Now, check out this…

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    Friday Inspiration: Pre

    This hasn’t been the best week running wise for me. I’m battling this bruising in my foot, plus a cold. All around, not great. But I’m still getting in some of the mile, and I still have a 18 mile long run planned for this weekend.  We’ll see how this goes. To get me pumped,…

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    Friday Inspiration

    This week was the Boston Marathon. Robert K Cheruiyot won it in a new course record of 2:05:52; Teyba Erkesso won the women’s field in 2:26:11. Here’s a clip of the finishes, Teyba Erkesso’s win is by far the more dramatic. For some reference, I ran a fifteen mile training run last sunday in 2:19:00,…

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    Friday Inspiration

    So, I have another fifteen miler planned for this weekend. I’ll be doing it on Saturday on the back roads near my parents house in Connecticut. I feel much more confident about this week than I did about last week, but not as confident as Haile Gebrsellassi looks in this video winning the Berlin marathon…

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    Closing In

    Another week without running for your gimpy blogger. I’m pretty down about it. Four more days at the most and I am back on the road though. For now, here’s some more of American’s long distance hope, Ryan Hall.

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    Friday Inspiration

    This will be the second weekend in a row that I am not running. I am going crazy here! And after a couple of days of the pain in my foot feeling better, it is definitely feeling worse today. Great. I think I am out of comission until Tuesday, but while I go stir crazy,…