“how injured runners keep from going insane” Yes. I know. I’ve been there. We’ve all been there. Some of us for much, much longer than others. This is all I’ve got.
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Race Report: Flushing Meadows 5K
Posted on November 26, 2011 by threlkeld
Today I raced the inaugural Flushing Meadows 5K race in Corona Park, Queens. The park was the site of two world’s fairs (1939 and 1964), and it contains very large, and very visually striking, vestiges of at least one of them. I’m too lazy to research more than that. This is a blog, people. The [...]
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Training: Nov 13 – 19
Posted on November 21, 2011 by threlkeld
This week featured two workouts (planned) and two days off (one of them unplanned). I had to cut back on the first workout since my back was still iffy. I had planned to do 4×10 mins at tempo pace on Sunday, but it took me about 5 miles to feel good on the run. But [...]
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Houston in January: Let’s put the “social” back in “social media”
Posted on November 18, 2011 by threlkeld
It’s come to my attention that a lot of people whom I kind of — but don’t really, but would like to — know are going to be descending upon Houston over Olympic Marathon Trials weekend. Since I just got turned down for a media credential, plus I’m only racing the 5K (although I will [...]
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Training: Nov 6 – 12
Posted on November 15, 2011 by threlkeld
Last week was on the lighter side due to two very late nights and a violent 24 hours or so of back spasm. I returned to the Rockies on Sunday for another tempo session around Swan Lake. But I was not feeling the love this week. It was windy and I just seemed slow. I [...]
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Sweet Tweets
Posted on November 11, 2011 by threlkeld
Lately I’ve been enjoying using Twitter as a platform for very short-form comedy writing. I have ongoing series on various themes. It’s only recently that I started including a hashtag on these for easy retrieval (or for others to contribute to the theme, although they rarely do). There is something about being constrained by 140 [...]
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Training: Oct 30 – Nov 5
Posted on November 5, 2011 by threlkeld
Welcome to winter! I wish I had a short memory because if I did: I would forget that we had temperatures around 80 earlier in October I would also forget that it snowed for 5 months last winter We got about 6 inches of snow the day before Halloween. Much damage, to my training schedule [...]
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Training: Oct 23 – 29
Posted on November 5, 2011 by threlkeld
This week of training featured my first tempo run at Rockefeller State Park (aka “the Rockies”), and it was enjoyable. It’s a good park to run in once you figure out how not to get unspeakably lost. The last time we ran there one area in particular caught my eye: Swan Lake. This small lake [...]
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