[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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Rinus from Holland put together this “runner’s eye view” of the marathon. He’s compressed his 4:17:19 run into 00:07:11 of footage. I think we refer to that sort of timing as a “New York Minute.”
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I’m racing so often these days that I’m getting sick of writing race reports. Or at least I worry that my race reports are boring. I’ll try to make this interesting. How’s this for an opening gambit: Jonathan was beaten today by a guy with a mullet. He was right in front of me at [...]
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This is the best thing you’ll see today, I promise. Watch it.
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Recovery, reshmovery. This was a tough week! Well, okay, it really wasn’t. My perspective is skewed because today’s run was a hard effort. A very hard effort, done a couple of days after another hard effort — which I did late in the day, so had only about 36 hours between hard efforts rather than [...]
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Week one of my “build” period of basebuilding went off with a bang — and ended with a milestone: I ran just under 97 miles this week, which is the most I’ve run in a week. Ever. There was a lot of variety this week, with no less than four quality sessions* including an experiment [...]
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Okay, it was a goose. But I couldn’t resist a Joni Mitchell-related pun. Today was my first longish run since the April 6th race. Among the sights today were: Dog Runner Man: A professional dog walker who runs with his charges. He’s usually got four dogs in tow. Last time, it was mid-sized mutts and [...]
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Props and a big shoutout to my homies in Alameda, California rapping for Huckabee. Somebody’s gotta give that man some attention in that state. Okay, it’s my darling (and highly enlightened) niece and nephew. This is your brain. This is your brain on home video. Any questions?
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This week’s training theme: If you want to get better at something, do it a lot. Oh, my god. This training business is hard. I ran nine times this week, covering just under 86 miles. The schedule wasn’t that different than two weeks ago, but I feel as if I’ve been run over by a [...]
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