It’s official. I am now as addicted to Twitter as I am to Facebook. This is not good. At least I can automatically send tweets to Facebook, so that saves a little time. I have not been a heavy Twitter user until now, primarily just exploiting it as a mechanism for automatically alerting any followers [...]
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[That's "happy trails" in Norwegian, at least according to Google Translate] What can you say about Grete Waitz? She was not only an inspiring talent, but she was one of running’s greatest ambassadors. There is a huge hole left in the world of running today. I will keep the bloviations to a minimum. That’ll be [...]
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For once, I called something correctly in a marathon. While I didn’t predict that Desiree Davila would come in second, I did say to Jonathan, right before the gun went off for the women’s race, “I think Davila is going to wipe the floor with Goucher today.” I will not go into why I thought [...]
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The adventure continues: low mileage, lots of recovery and not a little hard work. Any misgivings I’ve had about taking days off and losing easy miles were put to rest during last weekend’s race. I remain concerned about my fitness for a 13.1 mile race in two weeks. But I have to keep reminding myself [...]
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“germam fuck legs” What a coincidence — that’s what I’m making for dinner!
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My Low Expectations World Tour 2011 continues. And it’s going well. I ran just under 45:00 (44:59), a 19 second PR for the 10K (my previous one being on the same course at the Mini 10K in June). I had no expectations for today, and no goals other than to race hard. While I wore [...]
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What a weird week. I was sick all week with a cold that kept flaring up and then ebbing. On Tuesday I went out for a progression run that went okay (I was running 7:30 at around 86% effort — I wore my heart rate monitor for the first time since the summer), but my [...]
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I ran 8 miles in 1:04 today. The last two were 6:45 and 6:30. I have no idea where that came from. The best part was when two people actually jumped out of the way when they saw me coming.
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