Category: Navel Gazing
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2014: The Year in Milo
So every year WordPress sends me this corny graphic thing summarizing the traffic to this blog. Since I’m on a review 2014 kick, I thought I’d share it. You can see a link to it at the bottom of this post. Some highlights: Milo received about 35,000 hits in 2014. That is far more than…
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2014: My Physical Year
While 2014 was a great year for my reading, it was less than stellar year for exercise. Being the father of an infant does occasionally allow me to read late into the night, but its has made finding the time to exercise more difficult. In 2013 I spent a fair amount of time rock climbing…
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Diet Failure: More thoughts (and a confession) on antelopes and diets
Last week, with great pomp, I declared that I was going to try to turn myself from an ox into an antelope. When I wrote that, I meant it somewhat facetiously. I know you can’t turn an ox into an antelope and I know I am never going to have the body composition of Ryan…
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On Turning an Ox Into An Antelope
I come from a long line of oxen. My grandfather John was over six feet tall and tipped the scale at over two hundred pounds of muscle. He boxed in the Irish bars of the Bronx, then settled into a life as a car mechanic and garage owner. He was an ox — the kind…
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The Random Hammer Week That Wasn’t
Last week was supposed to be a big week. We were in Vermont for a much needed vacation and I had plans to run every morning and, heck, even get out for a second run here or there. I was looking for fifty miles for the week. It was going to be awesome. My own…
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On Not Running Every Day
After 46 days and some really, really stupid runs, life got the better of me and I broke my running streak. Here’s how it happened: Saturday, up at 5:30 am on the train at 7 to meet my parents for a car hand off so that carless seanv2 clan can make its annual pilgrimage…
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Training Totals for the Week Ending 7.6.2014
Run Miles for the week: 35.9 in 5:09:31 Run Miles for the year: 528.7 Projected total miles for the year: 1026.5 Run Streak: 40 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 1 Number of days until I beat my old run streak: 74 Prospect Park loops for the week: 3 Prospect Park loops for…
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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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Note to Self
Next time you think you’re too busy, or too tired, to get in a run remember last night. Remember how, knowing L would be awake in four hours, you lay awake, unable to sleep. Remember how you wished that your legs were sore, and your body tired. Remember that instead of watching the UCONN game…
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Too late for 2014 goals?
Its almost April and I am finally posting about my goals for 2014. That should tell you a bit about how my year has been going. As you might expect, an infant son and a new job have kept me busy. Anyway, goals. Last year, I set a number of lofty goals for myself. I…
Milo and the Calf 