Archive for May, 2011
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Yesterday morning, m and I left the apartment around 8am for a short run before we met some friends for brunch. As usual, she was excited to get out and screamed in delight when the apartment door opened. She rushed out into the hallway and stopped at the stairs, looked ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
During my last leg, when my mind was losing the battle to my body, in my darkest hour, I asked myself one simple question: why am I running? It was a question I'd never really asked myself before. Sure, I'd had dark moments during marathons when I considered stopping. In ...
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
The Thompson Motor Speedway in Thompson, CT, is a huge place. First, there's a paved oval race track where they run classes in Pro-Stock, Late Model and All Star Modifieds. (If that sounds like ancient Sumarian to you, you're not alone.) We pulled into the van entrance and drove for ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
When A-- set off on his run, the sun was still up, the sky a bright shade of blue, the air warm and humid. It was nearly 6:00pm, though, and by the rules of the race all runners must wear night gear after 7pm (and before 6am). A-- would be ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
The announcer called our team first, which surprised me. A--, our first runner, wearing a fake mustache, stepped as though he were a twit member of the Ministry of Funny Walks. Unbeknownst to us at the time, there were two other Monty Python themed teams running this race and we'd ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The day began cloudy, the air thick and humid. At the start, the ground was wet from seven days of rain. The forecast called for more of it to fall on us while we ran from New Haven to Boston over the next 26 to 29 hours. The team was ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
I've been telling people for a while, since my last bike accident, that I've driven a bike in New York every day for four years and only been knocked off my bike twice. I thought that was good odds. I may have spoken too soon.
I was on my way to ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
Run! by Dean Karnazes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Running on Empty: An Ultramarathorner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America by Marshall Ulrich
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
In early May, Dean Karnazes finished his triumphant run across America live on national television. “Seventy-five days ago I dreamed ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
I realized at 7:35am this morning that I need to get to 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue by 8:15am. Little m and I were still eating breakfast. Normally, on a day I run to work, I leave the house a little before 8am and it takes me about 40 minutes ...
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Looks like I made it onto the Dean blog in more ways than one.
You can see me in the photo above with little m on my shoulders...
...and again in the video. Watch closely at the 22 second mark. The big high-five. Not ...
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