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Running From The Pigs

Posted in health, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »

Oink – My wife’s Facebook status on Wednesday afternoon I spent the majority of Thanksgiving Week running from the pigs. They came for my younger daughter Saturday night, then for my wife on Monday night and finally for my older daughter on Wednesday night. No, I wasn’t being chased by the police. I haven’t called [...]

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Alone Together…

Posted in motivation, tagged , , , , , , on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“You okay?” “I don’t know.” “You can do it…you’re doing great…you’re almost there.” – A brief but repeated conversation between me and my competitors somewhere between mile 20 and mile 21 at the Manchester Marathon. My quadriceps has cramped up and I was barely hobbling along. In my two recent races I was struck by [...]

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A Time Machine Of Your Own

Posted in Physics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »

“I only run when I’m being chased…” -My Wife and many of my non-running friends Why do I run? For one, I run because I am being chased. By whom? By the same entity that chases all of us. Time. I know that eventually I will lose this race. It is inevitable. But I run [...]

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It’s Gotta be the Shoes

Posted in Vibram Five Fingers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2009 | 25 Comments »

“You gonna run this whole race in those?” -A concerned fellow runner at the starting line of the Chilly Half Marathon I do not run in conventional running shoes. My shoe of choice is the Vibram Five Finger, currently the KSO (stands for Keep Stuff Out). I have been running in the Vibrams (sometimes called [...]

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Falling Uphill

Posted in race recap, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2009 | 13 Comments »

Yesterday I ran our local half marathon. After my experience at Manchester I looked to this race with a balance of excitement and fear. As I warmed up with a half mile jog I kept telling myself, “make Manchester count for something…make Manchester count for something…” After my implosion during the second half of that [...]

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The Quest

Posted in boston marathon, tagged , , , , , on November 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »

So last night a good friend and fellow runner informed me that the Boston Marathon had closed registration for the upcoming 2010 event.  This was two months before the record closing from last year.  I had been convinced that I had until mid to late January to run another marathon in an attempt to qualify [...]

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Recovery

Posted in rest, tagged , , , , , on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

People keep reminding me that recovery and rest are part of training. I consistently have a hard time with this concept, despite the fact that I’ve experienced the negative impact of not listening to my body and allowing it to heal, rest and recover. This last week and a half however I’ve had no choice. [...]

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Manchester Marathon 2009

Posted in race recap, tagged , , , , on November 11, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I started running a year ago. Four months ago I decided to run a marathon with the hopes of qualifying for Boston. I was training to run Bay State in Lowell, MA with the hopes of running a 3:20:59 or better to BQ. Injury interrupted my training over the last 6 weeks and I was [...]

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