Milo and the Calf

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    Phil Coppess – hero to working stiff runners

    Its marathon season, which means the New York Times is once again including some running coverage in its sports section.  Today, there was a great little article about Phil Coppess who has held the Twin Cities Marathon course record for over twenty years with a time of 2:10:05.  The article is good read for all…

  • Numbers 9.24 -9.31

    Numbers 9.24-9.31 Total Hours of Exercise: ~6 Running : 24 miles in ~3:55:19 Cycling: 8 miles in 50:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): 00:10:00 Climbing ~1:00:00 Other 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: 5:00 This Week on Milo: The “jock roll” continues to grow, check out the great blogs over there. I did a little…

  • Seventies Hero: Katherine Switzer

    To many, Boston Billy was the laid back face of seventies running, just a guy who loved to run and happened, through hard work and a whole heck of a lot of miles, to get really good at it.  But there was more to the glory days of running than short shorts and awesome wool…

  • Recap: Week Ending 5.5.2012

    Ugh, not a good week at the gym, but a good week with the books. You win some, you lose some. Body Looking back – Work was out of control busy much of the week and time for the gym  disappeared.  I did make it twice, both times for relatively big sessions, including the start…

  • Running again

    I ran for the first time in over two months last night. It was only three miles on the treadmill, but it felt wonderful. OK, actually, it hurt, but not that bad! And that is a huge improvement over where I’ve been the last couple of times I have tried to run. This has been…

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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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    Three Boroughs, Three Bridges and Some 9/11 Reflections

    Like many New Yorkers, I tried to just go about my business this Sunday, September 11th, and my business on Sunday was to get my longest run of this training cycle done. The goal was 20 miles, I made it 19.25 before I called it a day. I feel pretty good about that.   Inspired…

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    Training Totals Week Ending 9.11.2011

    RECAP: Forward progress, that’s for sure. Even with a day off on Monday to accommodate a wedding related hang over and a flight home I was able to squeak in fifty miles for the week. Very happy about that. Not as happy about my performance on the long run this weekend, the first fifteen went…