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The Long Run: Two Bridges the Williamsburg and the Manhattan
Another gorgeous Sunday, another bridge checked off the list. That’s eight down, eighty three to go. The Williamsburg, the Willie-B, the Billyburg – with one end in the Lower East Side and the other in Williamsburg, it is the bridge the unifies hip, young, New York City. Covered in rusting steel latticework, it isn’t…
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Training Totals for the Week Ending 6.1.2014
Run Miles for the week: 30.3 in 4:27:37 Run Miles for the year: 372.9 Projected Total Miles for the Year: 895.5 Run Streak: 5 Prospect Park Loops: 29 Average Weight: 175 Weekly workout: 4 x hill repeats on the Prospect Park Zoo Hill. Four minutes to get from the base of the hill up…
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Race Autopsy: Brooklyn Half Marathon 2014
Unless you’re a pro runner with some writing chops, who runs in exotic locales against the best runners in the world, like Dakota Jones, or Sabrina Moran, odds are your race report is tedious and uninteresting to just about everyone but you. Your mom may say she enjoyed reading it, but she’s lying. Still, race…
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Training Totals for the Week Ending 4.20.2014
Playing catch up here… Run Miles for the week: 27 in 4:15:00 Run Miles for the year: 252.5 Projected Total Miles for the Year: 837.8 Run Streak: 4 days, 24 total miles averaging 6/day Prospect Park Loops: 14 Notes: Another decent week, with a pretty fun (if slow) 13 miler on Saturday. In preparation…
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The Long Run – The Park and the Bridge
I run for many reasons. To stay fit, to stay thin, to sleep at night, to have time to think, to work at the nearly impossible goal of becoming fast, and to explore. Exploration can come in different forms. It can be exploring new trails and road, or seeing old roads in a new way. …
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Friday Inspiration – Running Regardless of the Weather
The more I write about running, the more I want to run. The more I run, the more I have to say about running. Lately, I’ve been running relatively consistently so perhaps I’ll start blogging more consistently. The runs have been nothing spectacular in terms of either distance or speed, but with a three month…
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Major Life Event
Big changes in my life recently, mainly because of this guy: Stay tuned for more updates.
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Friday Inspiration – The Elusive Handstand
This is cheesy, and corny, and totally inspiring. Give it a watch. And yes, I’m still working on my handstand, I think I need to double down on the practice.
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Your Occasional Stoic: The Emperor and the Martyrs of the Republic
From Serverus: to love my family, truth and justice. It was through him that I encountered Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion and Brutus, and conceived of a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and of speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else. And from him as…
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Your Occasional Stoic – Friends, Teachers, Children
From Catulus: not to spurn a friend’s criticism, even if it may be unreasonable complaint, but to try to restore his usual feelings; to speak of one’s teachers with wholehearted gratitude, as is recorded of Domitius and Athenodotus; and a genuine love from children. -Meditations, 1.13 My notes tell me* that the Catulus who Marcus…
Milo and the Calf 