Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The SF Marathon, in order to be more environmentally friendly, gives out e-certificates to its finishers. Here's mine.
They are still saying that my time is unofficial, but there it is nonetheless. Next up, New York. Time goal? Is it too early to say 3:15?
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
At the suggesting of one of my running buddies, I break the marathon down into four parts. Herewith, my rundown of the four parts of the San Francisco Marathon.
8: The first part of the course if mostly flat until the 6 mile mark when the course takes a sharp turn, ...
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
I've been doing good with my writing. Usually when I go away, I don't write every day. I let the writing slide. I came to SF with a plan, though, knowing what specific things I would want to work on and making sure I had them to do. A new ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
I got my bib number for the SF Marathon today, number 2032. (If you want to track me you can try it here.) I got two free shirts and bought a third (sorry, honey), found free bottles and wandered the expo for about ninety minutes before finally heading out into ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
I have little more than four weeks before the San Francisco Marathon. Last Friday, hungover and tired from too little sleep, I ran 17 miles to work. It was a long, hard slog, one ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
My course for the day: 8.82 miles with some pretty rough hills. I got a bad cramp in my left quadriceps that at the end of the run prevented me from even being able to lift my knee off the ground. I took the subway home, knocking my planned 16 ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Last Saturday, I ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon in one hour forty minutes. I was ten minutes off my time last year, due in part to this foot injury I'm still battling. But the half marathon was a test of sorts, to see if I could run a full 13 ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Now that I've won NaNo, I can starting thinking about my next marathon. I'm running San Francisco on 26 July 2009, and I'm raising money for a program in that city called Youth Run4Fun, a program "dedicated to establishing community-based running and fitness programs for youth of all shapes, sizes ...
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