Stories

Here's something-- some of my running blog friends are SERIOUS about their running. They are out there slicing time off ...
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I was talking via email with a good friend who's taking on his own fitness challenges. We were discussing how ...
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Part of the reason I seemed so crabby after my race yesterday was that I'm starting to wonder about how ...
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Okay, first off, I got lost. I got really lost. This is one of the top three things I hate ...
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I posted this to an email list I belong to. It relates to the self-improvement part of my life. Boy ...
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The Pisgah Mountain 23K trail race. Okay, I admit it. I just raced something a little over my fitness level ...
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I find it odd and yet telling that my first and second half-marathon-distance runs have been in the woods to ...
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It starts off in darkness, with crickets and dew-necklaced grass. The moon is getting fatter; I think she'll go into ...
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I ran 8 miles this morning in Maudslay. It was EXCELLENT! I started in the dark, just before 5AM. I ...
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(First off, Blogger ate this post yesterday) I started yesterday at 5:05 at the pine swamp. Too swampy. My new ...
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Okay, I was kind of lazy about wanting to hoof out to the woods and run yet again in darkness ...
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In the first mile, I saw a little baby deer hauling butt too get away from me. I saw an ...
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I stepped onto the field at 5:08AM. It was pouring rain, the side-swipe of Hurricane Charlie writ small in little ...
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This morning, it took 1 hour and 40 minutes to get out of the house. I just couldn't find my ...
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I started out with five minutes of walking, and I felt my hip flexor immediately. I pushed four fingers into ...
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I ran the Appleton 5K in Ipswich, Mass today. It was foggy out, but that only made the farm's many ...
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Since July of last year, I've been working on self-improvement. In August, I took up a fitness and nutrition program, ...
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I arrived at the main parking lot at 5AM. After strapping on my ponderously over-packed Camelbak Lobo (I had survival ...
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Much better run this morning, which is funny because my mental critic was very vocal about not wanting to go ...
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I jumped into Hal Higdon's novice-level half marathon training at week eleven, because that's what lined up with the next ...
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