Warning: non-running post. My stepmother, Betsy, received an Amazon Kindle for Christmas, courtesy of my dad. She got the Kindle DX, which is the larger one. The Kindle itself is a nice little piece of functional bling. It’s thin, fairly light and the display is razor sharp and very readable. But the Kindle experience was [...]
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My goals this year are modest. In years past, I had ambitious goals that revolved around mileage and race times. Not this time. Here are my goals for 2010: Enjoy running, training and racing again Avoid injury Listen to my body and rest so I don’t get overtrained Don’t race another marathon until I feel [...]
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I apparently don’t have enough ways to waste my time, so I’ve started yet another new blog, The Tagliner. It’s a place to channel the strange thoughts that enter my mind whenever I’m in a commercially rich atmosphere (this unfortunately includes my own living room when the TV’s on, during most of my workday, and [...]
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Doing a “look back on 2009″ post seems to be all the rage among running bloggers this month. Although I normally purse my lips in disapproval at such conformity, I’ll jump on the bandwagon. Now is as good a time as any to reflect upon the past year, which from a marathon racing perspective was [...]
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No. But it did bring up some interesting questions: Is the writer’s native language English? How did he or she manage to get so many of the basics wrong yet use and spell the word “dissipate” correctly? Does the conducting medium have to be honey or peanut butter? Will Nutella work? What about Marmite? Why [...]
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Jonathan and I have been en pièce jointe for 19 years today. Being nontraditional (and unmarried), we don’t celebrate our anniversary with anything more than a passing acknowledgment that the 17th of December has some meaning, whereas the 16th and the 18th do not. The title of this post references one of my favorite Steely [...]
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Or at least it appears that way. The listing for the April More Magazine-sponsored race is shown as the More Half Marathon. No full. Loyal readers will recall my critical analysis (and I do mean critical) of that event’s rapid growth of the half, coupled with the equally swift demise of the full. No mystery [...]
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I got something like 700 hits to this site on Sunday, which is roughly four times what I get on a big day. So I guess lots of people were curious about how the day went (and I’m sure a fair amount of the traffic was from other participants looking for race reports from the [...]
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Imagine that you’re a singer. In your home you build a special room just for your singing. Every day you go into that room and for anywhere from 90 minutes to three hours you practice your singing. Some days are more challenging than others, with big octave shifts, trills or timber exercises. On many days, [...]
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3:46:33. Slow from the get go. In trouble at mile 10. Died at the halfway point. The rest was a fucking death march. At least I qualified for Boston. Again. Barely. I don’t know that I ever want to do this again.
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