Category: Running
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Numbers 7.9.2012 – 7.15.2012
Numbers 7.9-7.15 Total Hours of Exercise: ~8:30 Running : 11.6 miles in ~1:50 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:30 Climbing ~3:40 Other (hiking) 4.5 miles ~1:30 (5 pound pack) Hebrew Study Time: ~0:45 Comments: Running is coming along pretty nicely, a little tightness in Achilles, but nothing too…
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The Trial of Miles
I’m running again, slowly, very slowly. And not particularly far, just 3.5 miles, three times a week. It’s going to be a long road back to fitness, and of course I am reminded of this quote from the greatest book ever written on distance running, Once a Runner: “And too there were the questions: What…
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Running Again
I started the long road back to running this week – 3.5 miles of run walk combination completed in 38:40 for an average of a 12:54 mile. It was slow, it was boring, but it was running, pain free running and it has been a long, long time since I have run without pain. At…
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Seventies Hero: Bill Rodgers
I am fascinated by the seventies. Perhaps that is because I just missed it. Being born in 1975 I saw the decade in reflection from the much less interesting eighties. I am fascinated by the music, the art, the fashion and the rebirth of recreational fitness culture in America. The seventies was when everything we…
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Running again
I ran for the first time in over two months last night. It was only three miles on the treadmill, but it felt wonderful. OK, actually, it hurt, but not that bad! And that is a huge improvement over where I’ve been the last couple of times I have tried to run. This has been…
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Trail Running in Prospect Park
I’ve run well over a thousand miles in Prospect Park. Most of those have been on the outer loop. Lately, the loop has been getting a little dull, so yesterday I decided to switch it up. The idea for the run was to not run on the main loop at all, but keep entirely to…
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Some thoughts on Run Streaks.
A hearty congratulations to Jon Simpson who recently celebrated a running streak of forty years. Mr. Simpson is a big dog in the world of running streaks, only six other people in the United States have run everyday for forty years. It’s a serious feat. Jon Simpson Getting in the Miles I’m a bit…
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Hurricane Loops
Continuing the parkway theme from last week, my original plan for this weekend’s long run was to run down Ocean Parkway to Coney Island, but then Hurricane Irene came along, they turned Coney Island into an evacuation zone, and E all but forbid me running down there. So loops in Prospect Park it was. Trucks…
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1000 miles in Prospect Park
Note: Originally written for another blog. Posted here for posterity. The “bearded guy” I have since found out is legendary local ultra runner Lois Rios. Last night, sometime right around the top of the hill, near the great lawn, I ran my 1,000th mile in Prospect Park. Ok, I have probably run more, in the…
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Race Autopsy: The 2010 Vermont City Marathon
The synopsis If for some unknown reason you don’t want to read seven hundred words on my running of the Vermont City Marathon here it is in a sentence. I ran VCM in 4:27:16 smashing my previous marathon PR of 5:45. The Lead Up Ah Vermont, the land of Ben and Jerry’s, beautiful vistas and…
Milo and the Calf 