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Is road running bad for you?

Flying home from New York I was reading Runners World and in the Fact or Fiction section, they had the following question:
Q: Running on pavement is bad for your joints
A: Fiction. Runnings impact is actually good for you; it stimulates bone growth and strengthens muscles. And while softer surfaces like dirt and grass […]

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New York, New York!

I had to be in the Big Apple for work this week and the weather was amazing. I met up with a co-worker for a 7am run around Central Park. My hotel was about 1.5 miles from the park, so I left about 6:45 and then we went for a nice 6 mile […]

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Victory? … I think so

I had quite a surreal experience on Saturday. My brother-in-law, Scott, and I headed to Olympia Washington to run the Easter Marathon. This is a really small race that historically hasn’t had a very fast winning time. The times I looked at ranged from 3:02 to 3:24 or so. Since I […]

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Sickness continues…

I am still very much under the weather, coughing interesting things up, and wishing I wasn’t sick. I haven’t run much at all this week, but have my next marathon on Saturday.
I am currently in Seattle Washington where the weather (like 98% of the time when I am here) is perfectly sunny. Up […]

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Is it morning already?

I’m still losing my battle with the Ides of March and so when morning came this morning and my wife went to check our son’s temperature to see if he needed to stay home from school, I was secretly hoping he would have a slight fever and that I wouldn’t have to get out of […]

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