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Who in their right mind...?: Boston - draft
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Friday, July 10, 2015. I started writing a race report, and the draft has been sitting on my desktop unfinished since April. I'm posting it here unedited for posterity. This is a story about having to work a lot harder than you thought for something. It is not so much a story of perseverance as it is a story of serendipity in the places you least expect it, and adversity in the places where you feel like life owed you a break. It is also a story about being really, really cold. Luckily, we weren’t ...
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Who in their right mind...?: Maffetone Method. Nope
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Friday, July 10, 2015. Maffetone Method. Nope. Mark "Grip" Allen claims that the Maffetone. Method of training helped him make the leap. From elite to unbeatable. That and some peyote. June - Where things really changed. July - Nails in the coffin. But what about the promise that your race performances would improve from running slower? If Maffetone (and the haters) were right, and high volume/high speed leads to overtraining, then my race performances shouldn’t drop off by as much. Maybe? My Boston Tria...
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Who in their right mind...?: September 2013
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013. The American Discovery Trail Marathon didn't turn out the way I had wanted it to. And I had worked too hard. And gotten too much faster. I must have walked over 5 miles in Colorado, so I didn't think. That I had pushed my body too hard, but the whole problem was that at 7000 ft, I had no idea. We could drive down Saturday and come back on Sunday.". I am the luckiest self-absorbed endurance athlete in the world. When I'm suffering, you can see it on my face. In. The race start...
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Who in their right mind...?: May 2013
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Day 10: I am so fucking slow. Apparently I've become a pavement sissy. I always thought that those trail runners that tell stories like, "there was ONE MILE" of pavement in that 100 miler and now I have a stress fracture! Also making me unhappy indeed today was that the only miles I had been able to knock out at work were 1.7 miles walked while answering emails, so I had to run 16.9 miles consecutively without any snack breaks and all on hilly trails. Day 9 I am so fucking fast.
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Who in their right mind...?: October 2011
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011. This week I came back to Boston for the first time since I moved. To San Francisco about 16 months ago. In all that time I had never had the desire to visit, especially since I was afraid that seeing many of my old friends would reopen wounds that were still tender. But it had to happen eventually, and so last Friday night I boarded a plane to revisit the site of the worst 6 months. I eventually ventured to ask. "Is it still a shithole, or have you guys done some work on it?
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Who in their right mind...?: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. I was enjoying riding to work, but the quickest way to get there was on a bike trail (I know, I know, I HATE bike trails… but it cut 10 min of traffic lights off the trip! This is where our story begins. When I came to pick up my racing bike, they had forgotten to put new tires on. He first took me over to the super-skinny racing tires. “Aw, there’s no need,” I said. “I’m just going to be riding this thing to and from work.”. 8220;Oh, I know,” I said. “This bike ha...8220;No you d...
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Who in their right mind...?: No you're not! You're just not. So stop saying that you are.
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Friday, February 20, 2015. You're just not. So stop saying that you are. You all know how I feel about bitches who are too big for their britches and inflate their potential because they are too ignorant of the challenge that they are undertaking to have an accurate sense of their abilities. In short, when they say, “I can do that! 8221; I want to say, “Bitch, no you can’t! 8221; This is a rant about one of those situations. This was my cue to start stalking. Women’s programs in the western world. 8221; ...
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Who in their right mind...?: September 2011
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Saturday, September 17, 2011. Are you still alive? So what have I been up to? For the first year I was here, I felt like I was on a treadmill; working my ass of and not gaining any real ground. And then all of a sudden it was like I burst of the front of the treadmill and started running. I hit my stride and haven't slowed down since. I don't have to tell you, I'm awesome. Started sucking up to me. I still felt like I was learning how to translate what I knew into other people's training plans, and sudde...
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Who in their right mind...?: April 2013
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Friday, April 19, 2013. When a client first mentioned something about an "explosion at the marathon finish line," I thought it was an MIT prank gone awry. An explosion at the Boston Marathon finish line? That makes no sense. No one would notice a dancing bear at the Boston Marathon finish line. I've been there. It's pandemonium. Of course these people weren't the victims, but it's human nature to ask, who would I be in this tragedy? This is not about you, you self-important ass. Yes, there is a tendency ...
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Who in their right mind...?: Maffetone Revisited
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. This is so hard! I wrote recently about my experimentation with the Maffetone Method. My initial conclusion: It is a giant load of crap. I turned the heart rate alert off on my watch and started running faster paces again. Paces that used to be easy suddenly felt unsustainably hard as I reintroduced sub-9-minute speed into my legs. Three weeks later, I’ve gone from being able to run 5.7-6mph at my MAF heart rate up to 6.7 to 7mph again. What am I to make of this? I finally found ...
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