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The Second Lap: January 2015
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. Ed Note: While this won’t be posted till I’m home, I won’t revise the text based on any resources available when I get there. What would be the fun of that? Also, apologies for the length…lots of time on my hands up here! Roar of the engines, we’ve risen to thirty-eight thousand feet…]. We are runners. We run. We do these things because we can. The afternoon q...
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The Second Lap: August 2014
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Not As Level As Expected. Fire and Rain, Or Rather, Ash and Slugs. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. Not As Level As Expected. Life isn’t fair, but sometimes you slough that off and appreciate the goodness that is. Back in May, I wrote of two races. Sorry, Brocktonians, you know I’m kidding…really, the venue was delightful.) Or could be that those who follow Level Renner. Are clearly a self-se...
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The Second Lap: May 2014
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. A Tale of Two Races. Back to the Streets. An Open Letter to the Boston Athletic Association. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. A Tale of Two Races. Then consider what I’ll call Race A, is a five kilometer event aimed squarely at recreational runners (yes, besides shirts, there are medals for all finishers – in a five-K). Early registration thudded on the table at forty bucks...8221; and got...
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The Second Lap: May 2015
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. America Races on Dunkin’. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. America Races on Dunkin’. Though we’d had no ‘runners set! 8217; warning, most of us in the first few rows instinctively took off, confusion and then humor setting in only a few seconds later as our brains engaged. A false start in a road race? Or simply more warm-up? Dam(n). How’d that happen? All heaps of praise due to the Squannaco...
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The Second Lap: October 2014
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Her Day, Not Mine! Old, Old, and Older. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. I prefer to think it’s just what we do. Perhaps, but tasted like heaven. And everything else about this race is first class. I ran my first Boston qualifier at Baystate. It’s only fitting I ran my tenth there as well. Back to the Tyngsborough Bridge, knowing I’d defeated the wind the second and final time, and onwa...
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The Second Lap: February 2015
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. How Quickly We Forget. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. How Quickly We Forget. In barely an hour, Spring arrives, at least by my reckoning. March First! Day 60 of the challenge! But because it’s been over four months since I toed the line. The last time was at Baystate, a race that went swimmingly till suddenly it didn’t, leading to a significant injury time-out, protective cu...It’s no...
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The Second Lap: September 2014
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Healthy or Not, Here We Go. Back to Back to the Woods. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. Healthy or Not, Here We Go. Am I at all sane? It’s a good question. I took a liking to him immediately back then, not in the least because he’s athletic and gets it. “Stop Running! Declared healthy, it’s off to the races…or is it? Or is there another mystery at work here with surprises yet to be discovered?
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The Second Lap: April 2015
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. Twenty-two marathons including nine Bostons (even if it is a little hard to see those nine fingers in the pre-race photo…). But this one was like no other. It was like no other. The combination of moderated goals, early race traffic, and a conservative approach to retain strength to battle the elements resulted in the most evenly paced marathon of my caree...
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The Second Lap: July 2015
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Chasing and Racing Away the Summer Slump. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. Chasing and Racing Away the Summer Slump. Not by a long stretch. The good news is that a camera malfunction left Dearest Spouse without pictures from later in the race. The videos posted on the Level Renner site make clear you didn’t want to see that, anyway. It wasn’t pretty. How long is it till September? This one fe...
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The Second Lap: March 2014
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A running commentary on running in this, my second time around. Assumptions, Part Two. Links that will change your life! CMS Men's Racing Team. View my complete profile. A couple of weeks back I penned my intense dismay. As I stated a few weeks ago, I’ve got no issue with having bags searched, being asked to minimize gear or carry it in clear bags, arriving a little early, and so on. But I’ve got a huge issue with being separated from the gear that I need to run my best race. Wear me out before the race!