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Training numbers for the week ending 4.19.09
Recap – This week I added two more miles to the running, plus the half mile swim. I’m trying to be conservative on how many miles I add a week, cause the last thing I want is to get sidelined by an injury when things are going so well. In the coming days I’ll write…
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Introduction
I have started, abandoned, restarted and abandoned again the idea of writing about fitness in a semi-regular way. I have begun and then ditched three blogs on the subject. All through that time I have run a marathon, done a triathlon, become enamored with crossfit, stopped going to crossfit, gone back to crossfit, and now,…
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Hello world!
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Review: O’Brien and Williams’s Global Political Economy
Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics Robert O’Brien and Marc Williams This is another one that was probably more a textbook than a book, but as I read it cover to cover in undergrad, it counts. Politically economy is sometimes used as a code word for Marxists, but in O’Brien and Williams it was used…
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Review: Karnazes’s Ultra-Marathon Man
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner Dean Karnazes The book that spawned a thousand of ultra-runners, Dean Karnazes’s chronicle of his life from depressed businessman to Ultra running superstar is the ur-text of the modern ultra endurance memoir trade. When it came out, it was a deeply controversial book in the ultra-running world. Karnezes…
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Review: Dicken’s Global Shift
Global Shift, Seventh Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy Peter Dicken This one really borders on being a textbook (and in fact, I read it for a class on international political economy in undergrad) but as I did read it cover to cover, I think its worth a review, though perhaps not…
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Review: Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile
Adrift on the Nile Nahgib Mafouz I was told to read this because it was supposed to be “the perfect treatment of life under Nasser”. It’s the story of a group of pseudo intellectuals and broken men who meet on a house boat every night to get high, until a tragic event befalls them leading…
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Impressions of Muslim Brotherhood
I wrote this originally in 2007 and, again, it seems terribly naive and dated, but I’m keeping it as is. The Muslim Brotherhood (lets call it MB from here on out) is a massive organization, the biggest opposition group by far in Egypt, and everyone I have asked here had an opinion about it.…
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Cairo (The Hanging Church)
I should do a big tourist post about everything I’ve seen – maybe later. For now, settle for these bullet points of last couple days… 1. This weekend I almost got in a fist fight with a cabbie. 2. I also saw all of coptic cairo, which boasts cairo’s oldest synagogue, church and mosque. I…
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Cairo (Part 4)
Running in Cairo in June is a sure way to prove that there is nothing necessarily healthy about training for a marathon. I am still sweating. And my snot is really, really black. But I gotta say I love my neighborhood, I got incredibly lost, but hey, it’s a island, so as long as you…
Milo and the Calf 