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Once a Runner
The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials? – Once a Runner I started reading John Parker’s Once a Runner this week, and I can’t understand…
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Training Totals 5.2.2010
RECAP: Not every week can be great. Sometimes, the body just needs a break, and this week was one of those weeks. Even though I decided to cut my long run down from 18 to 15 miles, I still feel ok about this week. My left foot which was giving me a lot of trouble…
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Friday Inspiration: Pre
This hasn’t been the best week running wise for me. I’m battling this bruising in my foot, plus a cold. All around, not great. But I’m still getting in some of the mile, and I still have a 18 mile long run planned for this weekend. We’ll see how this goes. To get me pumped,…
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Training Totals 4.25.10
RECAP: 41.5 miles. Over six hours on my feet. That, my friends, is a lot of running. The goal for the week was 43 miles, but life got in the way (wedding venues!) and I had to cut the Saturday run really short. Whatever, I’m still proud. This is the most miles I have ever…
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Progress
Yesterday I wrote a short post about how I hadn’t heard from my Rabbi about my conversion essay and then, hours after posting, I got a reply. Rabbi, are you reading my blog? Anyway, he seemed to like the essay and had no real edits of it, so we’re on for a meeting with the…
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Friday Inspiration
This week was the Boston Marathon. Robert K Cheruiyot won it in a new course record of 2:05:52; Teyba Erkesso won the women’s field in 2:26:11. Here’s a clip of the finishes, Teyba Erkesso’s win is by far the more dramatic. For some reference, I ran a fifteen mile training run last sunday in 2:19:00,…
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The waiting is the hardest part
For me, the conversion process has been a lot of hurry up and wait. I submitted my conversion essay to my rabbi over a month ago and have yet to get any feedback on it. I spoke with him on the phone earlier this week, and he admitted not having looked at it. Passover and…
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The Outer Edges
As I have written here earlier, I’m obsessed with running. I am thinking constantly about the science of training, about running history, and perhaps most significantly, the outer edges of the sport. Ultra marathons, running streaks, running cults, mega mileage runners, I love it all. I may be a middle of the pack average runner…
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Training Totals
RECAP: I think I need to face up to the fact that for right now, as long as I am getting in my scheduled runs, I should really be too upset about not hitting my total workout time goals. Work is busy, I travel every weekend, and really, all that is important to me right…
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Friday Inspiration
Boston Marathon, 1982. Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley dueling in out in the final stretch. Next to Katherin Switzer, this is probably the most famous story in the history of Boston. Watch it in very grainy footage below, and good luck to everyone running Boston!
Milo and the Calf 