Category: Running
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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…
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Running Streak
By and large, runners achieve their best results with a smart balance of easy runs, difficult work outs, and rest. That has never worked for me. What always screws me over is the rest. I take one day off — it turns into two. Two turns into three, three turns into a week and suddenly……
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The Hungry Fighter
I’m currently reading the Sports Gene by David Epstein, a fascinating book which, in addressing how genetics affects sports performance, ends up raising interesting, and challenging, questions about gender and race. I may write more about those topics later but this morning I was reading about the dominance of Kenyan runners at endurance events and…
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The Long Run – The City Slicker In Nature
I have spent my entire adult life living in urban environments. In those years, I’ve spent very little time in nature. I spend most of my time pounding the pavement of the streets of New York. New York City is my home, and the urban landscape is where I am most comfortable. I love the…
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The Return of the Training Totals
The statistics page for this website makes clear that no one cares about my weekly training totals.* That’s ok, if I was in this for the hit count I’d be posting about sideboobs and Miley Cyrus, not ultrarunning and ancient cultures. Anyway, for the seven or eight of you who care how I spent my…
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Race Autopsy – The Brooklyn Half Marathon
I ran an actual honest to god race a couple of weeks ago. It hurt, but in a good way. It wasn’t the best race of my life, but it was better than expected. In the last couple of years, the Brooklyn Half Marathon has gone from a sleepy outer borough race with a few…
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“The Community”: Cult or Spiritual Seekers?
I’ve long been interested in the out edges of the running community – ultra runners, streak runners, and mega-mileage runners are all areas of the sport I’ve written about frequently. A fascination with those willing to take the sport to the edge coupled with a lifelong interest in new religious movements* has lead me to…
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Training Totals – Week Ending 1/20/2013
Overview: Try again, fail again, fail better. Limited temporal resources spread thin over a bunch of shit that needs to get done. Still, I ran, did bodyweight work, and climbed. It could have been worse. Numbers For the Week For the Year Total Exercise Time ~5:30:00 ~12:00:00 Average Weight 171 171 Run 22 in…
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Training Totals – Week Ending 1/13/2013
Overview: We’re finally settling in to the new place, and I feel like I am finally settling in to a workout routine. It isn’t perfect yet, but it’s a start. Running wise, I’m finally starting to get out there regularly again, the weekly mileage isn’t there yet, but it will be soon. The little mini-goal…
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2013 Goals – Running
Although it is much maligned in the modern world, I’m still a big fan of the New Years resolution. The new year is a chance to start again, to imagine a better version of yourself, try to try, even if you fail. This year I’m starting off with running goals which can be accomplished through…
Milo and the Calf 