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It is safe to say that I am obsessed with running. Really, truly obsessed. I think about it all the time. I want to read about it all the time and I want to actually be doing it all the time. I promised myself at the start of this year that I would not make…
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Training Totals: 5.11.2010
RECAP: I guess it is a good sign if what I am disappointed about in a week is not that I didn’t get my runs in, but that I didn’t feel good on (some) of the runs. I think packing more miles onto my long run week after week has finally caught up with me…
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50 Days
First, I over slept. Then, I had to work late, but finally, late last night, I headed out the door for five miles and reached little mini milestone. I had run fifty days in a row. I know streaking is a controversial topic in the running community. People think running distances of less than three…
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Training Totals: 4.4.10
RECAP: Well, life got the better of me this week. I was in New York for Passover for part of the week and then in Connecticut for Easter for the other part (I’m in an interfaith relationship, the spring gets complicated). I made my running goals for the week, but little else, and fell far…
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Friday Inspiration
So, I have another fifteen miler planned for this weekend. I’ll be doing it on Saturday on the back roads near my parents house in Connecticut. I feel much more confident about this week than I did about last week, but not as confident as Haile Gebrsellassi looks in this video winning the Berlin marathon…
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Marathon Autopsy: The Training
In 2005, I ran my first and (so far) only marathon, the New York City Marathon. It was a total disaster. I was undertrained and suffered serious gastrointestinal issues on the course. I finished in an extremely disappointing five hours and forty five minutes. Now, as I am deep into the training for my next…
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Training Totals 3.29.10
RECAP: 15 miles. Yeah, it hurt a little at the end, but generally, I felt pretty good. I have run well over a hundred mile in Prospect Park, from my first couple of miles in training for my first marathon to these fifteen. It felt great to do a strong long run there on a…
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Friday Inspiration
This is a big weekend for me. For the first time in well over six months, I am planning on doing a fifteen mile run tomorrow. I’m more than a little nervous about it. Under fifteen – no big deal; Fifteen and over – hurts. So, to get myself excited, I am re instituting Friday…
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Interesting Gers: Jamaica Kincaid
This weeks interesting ger is Jamaica Kincaid, African American novelist, big time gardener, and convert to Judaism. Kincaid who is probably most famous for her novels Lucy and Annie John hasn’t spoken much in public about her conversion. I read a number of pieces by Kincaid in college, but never once heard she was Jewish…
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Where my conversion stands
Since I stopped updating regularly here, I’ve taken substantial steps toward converting in the conservative movement. I’ll give you a recap of how all this went down. First, around the time of my last post, I had started attending conversion class with a conservative rabbi h ere in the D.C. It was a great experience.…
Milo and the Calf 