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The End of a Streak; Belated Manchester *HALF* Marathon Race And Season Notes
It’s fitting that I’m getting around to jotting a few notes on this race almost a week after the fact. The whole thing ended up being a bit nonchalant, given it was my main race of the season and the...
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Three tactics for getting out of bed to run in the morning
I am not by nature a super early riser, or a morning runner. For many of my marathon running years, I got up just in time to breakfast, shower and get to work, and not a minute earlier. I ground out my...
View ArticleJerome and Treadmill: A Modern Victorian Yuletide Horror
As Christmas Eve approaches, I’m republishing here a tale from last year about distance running, monsters, debt, and self-sacrifice. For those of you who run around New Hampshire and think there’s...
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Heavy Medal Christmas Tree
Struggling to figure out how to display all those race medals (assuming your spouse prefers you don’t hang them in the kitchen)? I was cleaning the basement this afternoon and got side-“tracked” with...
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A Game of Roads: A Song of Ice And Runners
How routes get chosen for a group run, and what happens when they don’t. It’s 7:45 on a crisp, sunny, 15 degree January morning in New Hampshire. There are about a dozen middle aged men in black...
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Quick-Start Primer for a Low-Carb Diet
If you’re thinking about trying a low-carb for weight-loss, here’s a post that will get you started right now. I’ve been eating primarily low-carb (with targeted exceptions for intense running training...
View ArticleWearable tech: Running watch that leverages your self-loathing
Finally a running app that taps into the inner demons that drive every runner – and makes you feel worse about yourself so you train harder. Nice, sign me up!!! Check out the video – says it all. The...
View ArticleUltra-midlife crisis redux, the next 50-miler, and again, ‘why run?’
I put off signing up for the next race for a long time, until I was deep into what should have been the training cycle, especially if the next race was going to be a fifty miler. I held onto a baseline...
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On Writing, Running, Shame and Authenticity
I didn’t run the 50 miler I’d signed up for in May. Life got complicated, and I re-prioritized all kinds of stuff. Running too. But in deciding not to run the race, not to keep training for the race,...
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Setting Out For The Beach
Ready for this year’s Reach the Beach! Team ultra midlife crisis hits the road at 3 pm. Very much looking forward to running all night; the mad delirium, the camaraderie, the physical intensity and...
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