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Training Totals 3.18.2012
RECAP: This was the highest number of hours of physical exercise I have done in month and months. It was a mixed bag. My climbing is getting much better, I’m getting strong at bodyweight work and, of course, I am looking at another running injury. Two out of three isn’t bad. I’ll talk about the…
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Programming Announcement
For years now my primary fitness goal has been qualifying for the Boston marathon. Though I am slower than I was at this time last year, I think I am finally on my way to reaching that goal. My injuries this winter humbled me and made me realize that I need to train hard, but…
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Training Totals Week Ending 3/11/2012
RECAP: Still here, still running. Insanely busy with work, but fitting in some miles and keeping to my promise to build the miles slowly and not get hurt. Last week was the first time I hit thirty miles for the week since November and it felt fine. In an abundance of caution, I took a slight…
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Training Totals 1/9/2012
RECAP: A new year and a new commitment to running smart, to building the mileage slowly; a commitment to being boring, safe, and to being injury free. These updates are going to be dull, dull, dull for the foreseeable future – some running, some time on the elliptical, some weight lifting. If I play my cards…
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Looking Back / Looking Forward
Looking Back: 2010 was a year of unfulfilled potential. I started the year off with an injury, bounced back for a strong spring and summer, and finished the year with two serious injuries and a very disappointing fall racing season. I ran 1582 miles this year, roughly one hundred miles fewer than I ran in…
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Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge
Nudge Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein In my final year of law school, Nudge was the book that was under every policy wonk’s arm. It’s not surprising that the khaki’ed masses of Du Pont circle wanted to read the first popular book explaining the policy implications of the findings of behavioral economics. In Nudge, Richard…
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Concept2 Holiday Challenge
Since I was in law school I have toyed with the idea of doing the Concept2 Holiday Challenge wherein one rows 200,000 miles between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Every year, something has come up and prevented me from doing the challenge, but this year, a combination of a bum ankle, which is keeping me from…
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Injury Report
The injuries persist and they are starting to really piss me off. The ankle isn’t getting any better. I tested it last week at the gym and after half a mile, the pain came back. The groin is also still tender. I’ve made an appointment with the doctor to look into both of these, but…
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Ankle, bad; Shoulder, good.
Took the ankle for a test drive last night on the treadmill, it felt fine for a half mile and then the pain started to come back. I shut it down and got back on the goddamn elliptical. Man, I hate that thing. Bu I am going to be spending a lot more time on…
Milo and the Calf 