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Cycling 500,000 miles?
I’ve written about running legend Amby Burfoot’s website 100k lifetime miles before. Burfoot keeps a sort of unofficial record of runners who have logged at least 100,000 miles in their lifetime. It’s an impressive list. Running 100,000 miles takes incredible dedication and years upon years of consistent mileage. I started way too late in life…
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The Books I Read in 2012
Attention conservation notice: this post is long and has nothing to do with working out. I have kept a list of every book I have read I have read since I was thirteen years old. Yeah, obsessive record keeping didn’t start with my running log. Below is a list of every book I read this…
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Milo and the Calf
Well, I think I can now safely announce that this blog is finished. I’m now continuing the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire, and writing about working out, learning ancient languages, and studying classical history over at my new website Milo and the Calf. Come on over and check us out at www.miloandthecalf.com
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Hacked!
My apologies to anyone who saw the “getting paid” spam message, that’s the first time I’ve ever been hacked. This blog is about a lot of things, but getting rich isn’t one of them.
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My Running Commute
There is something about strapping on a backpack and running home from work at nine o’clock at night that makes one feel simultaneously like an absurdly time pressured uptight New Yorker and a total badass. Last night, after months of injury, and more months of very slowly recovering from injury, I finally did the run…
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Your Occasional Stoic – Manners Make the Man
An occasional series of posts quoting the great works of stoicism with some short notes from me. From Alexander the grammarian: not to leap on mistakes, or captiously interrupt when anyone makes an error of vocabulary, syntax, or pronunciation, but neatly to introduce the correct form of that particular expression by way of answer, confirmation,…
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Back at it
I’m back from two weeks in Turkey and Greece, an amazing trip full of history, culture, great food, and a little running. I’d plan to run three times a week, but surprise, surprise that didn’t happen. I did swim in the Aegean for a week straight, so that has to count for something. No point…
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JFK to Istanbul, direct.
Tomorrow I leave for a two week vacation in Turkey and Greece. The first four days will be taken up with a wedding after that E and I are free to explore Istanbul, Ephesus, Bodrum, Symi, Kos and Athens as we choose. I am incredibly excited. This will be my first time in the Mediterranean…
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Life and the Busy Athlete
There are twenty four hours in a day. Subtract eight for sleep, then eleven for work. That leaves five. Take away another hour and a half for eating, commuting, showering, and taking care of life’s little annoyances, and you’re left with three hours a day, on average, to live life. That isn’t a hell of…
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