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Marathon Goal Times

Picking a marathon goal time is a tricky thing to do. Over in the Land of Nitmos he is going with the two-pronged approach of best and worst case. He is starting with a range of 3:12 - 3:58. That’s quite a huge range. It’s the difference of about 1:45 a […]

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Hello Fall

Hello Fall, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of running.
Last night fall made its tentative first steps into Austin. I had struggled on Sunday, running around Central Park in New […]

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Magic Stretching for Dara Torres

As I get older and it takes longer to recover, I know that I should be stretching more. But I just can’t stand it. Intellectually I know my recovery would most likely improve as would my times, but I hate it. The above video shows what Dara Torres goes through in order […]

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Anti-WiiFit-Ite?

Like Francis from Stripes, I’ve put the Wii Fit on my list. We’ve been battling over the last few days, which lead to this following quote:
“Anti-WiiFit-Ite”
This was the comment left by our good friend Bethany on my last post. So the question is, am I a hater? Quite possibly. I do […]

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Sore Legs

I’ve had four nights sleep since the Rattlesnake 50k in West Virginia last Saturday.  Today was the first day that I could walk down stairs without some form of wincing.
The race was really fun, but really hilly.  We had 5000 feet of climbing over the course of 31 miles.  The downhill sections were fairly technical […]

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