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The BQ(Q) – Bryan
This one is really worth a read, especially Bryan’s answer to the last question. Name Bryan (justrundamnit) Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 36 Height: 6’4″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 165 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Wineglass Marathon Tell us a little about the race.…
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100 Days of Milo: Day 13 — Get Outside!
Sometime back, I developed a short list of resources for getting outside, with a specific focus on getting out of New York City. The page includes a various resources on Faster Known Times, the New England 4,000 foot peaks and most interestingly for a Brooklynite like myself, a list of New York day hikes. Over…
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The BQ(Q) – Brian N
Name Brian N. Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 23 Height: 6’0″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 130 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Big Cottonwood Tell us a little about the race. Very much a downhill course (If I remember right, about 5000 ft in elevation…
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Top Ten Stand Alone Posts and Pages
Of the over 700 posts and pages on this website, here are top ten “stand alone” pages which are neither Boston Qualifier Questionnaire responses nor book reviews. Its a funny grab bag of stuff. Check ’em out below: Fitness Habits of Disgraced Generals A silly little piece chronicling the fitness habits of Generals McCrystal and Petraeus. The Egoist on…
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Totals for the Week Ending 1.10.2016
Run Miles for the week: 23.4 in 4:04:19 Run Miles for the year: 24.3 Projected total run miles for the year: 1587.1 Miles per day/week to reach 2016 miles 5.5/38.8 Run Streak: 10 Run Streak Mileage: 47.7/4.8 One that were just one stupid mile 2 Days Until I Beat My Old Streak 104 Bike…
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Top Ten Book Reviews
I’ve written over 100 book reviews for this site and plan to write many, many more. Here’s a list of the ten most popular reviews: Tani and Sera’s False Nationalism / False Internationalism Coates’s Between the World and Me Mandel’s Station Eleven Fink’s Five Days at Memorial Martin’s Game of Thrones Chopra’s Shapeshifter Levitin’s The…
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A Programing Note: Lots of New BQ(Q)s on the Way!
Wow. In the last two days the new BQ(Q) questionnaire form has received over 25 new responses. I’m excited to share all these stories with the readers of this website, but I’m mindful of putting too many of them up at once and losing the individual stories in the rush of statistics. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be…
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Review: MacDonald’s H is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk Helen MacDonald A wonderfully strange memoir of a woman training a hawk while morning her father and reflecting on the life (and failed falconry) of the author T.H. White. Generally, I couldn’t care less about training birds to hunt things, or the life of White, or the joys of the English…
Milo and the Calf 