I thought about this essay during my track session today as I dodged flying soccer and lacrosse balls, along with people sauntering into my path or otherwise annoying the shit out of me.
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I had one of those very brief, deep REM, just before waking dreams this morning. It was mundane in substance, but at the same time strangely revelatory in the possibility it presented. In the dream, it’s a few days before a marathon. But unlike the typical head case I am, my mindset is instead a [...]
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It’s recently come to my attention that achieving blue bibbery may require something faster than a sub-7:00 pace. Like perhaps sub-6:50 or even sub-6:30, depending on the race’s field size. And here I thought I’d arrived. Now it seems I have more work to do. I’ll have to run even faster to catch that damned [...]
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Oh, happy day. I feel like little Charlie Bucket, having at last found the special, golden-ticketed chocolate bar. Sure, it’s not exactly a candy-filled wonderland with Gene Wilder and a cabal of singing and dancing orange dwarves. But it’s the next best thing: entrance to Corral 1 in NYRR races for the foreseeable future. After [...]
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Ewen from Down Under recently pointed me to a newish elite blog, hosted by married elites Ian Dobson and Julia Lucas. Only upon visiting the blog (many weeks later — sorry, Ewen) did I realize that I was rubbing elbows with these two when I gatecrashed the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run elite tent on New [...]
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Two Angry Runners is to running news what The Onion is to mainstream news. If you spend any time on LetsRun.com, know who Jen Rhines and Terrence Mahon are, or the phrase “Now go down to your local high school track and try that!” means anything to you, then you’ll want to visit this site [...]
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I did a really good track workout today. I’m just so damned pleased and impressed with myself that I can’t stop me from obnoxiously posting about it. The session: Warmup run to the track (~2.5 miles) Assigned work: four cutdown intervals with 3 min jog rests. Goal times (paces): 1600 in 6:40 (6:40) 1200 in [...]
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Today’s oddity: “i love ibuprofen” Make that “I love vicodin” and you’ve found the right blog! And another: “how to bounce back from a bad marathon” Again, the answer is vicodin. This is way too easy.
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I was recently sent a doohickey called the ithlete from the developer, a very nice gentleman named Simon Wegerif. The doohickey in question attaches to an iPod and when connected to a heart rate monitor feeds heart rate variability (HRV) data into an iPod application, also called ithlete. The problem is, neither of my digital [...]
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If you haven’t yet friended me on Facebook, then you’re missing a lot. I tend to post things there that are too ephemeral to warrant a post on this blog. They might be links to articles, interviews of note, links to notable discussion threads, or weird things that break up the day. Here are just [...]
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