Category: Rants, pontifications and general mayhem
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What does it mean to be a runner?
I ran the Beyond the Rainbow 5K on Sunday up in New Market, New Hampshire. Usually I run the Great Bay Half Marathon at this event each year. You know why I opted for the 5K this year, so I wont go into that again. At the 2.5 mile mark the Half Marathon runners went…
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Rhapsody in Blue on The Charles
As I drove home Friday evening I scanned the wireless for engaging melodies. As I tuned past people yelling, singing? People blathering on about something or other, ads, and other electronic effluence my wireless pulled in a local signal. One that I normally pass on by. But this time my ears picked up on a familiar…
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Spam, spam, spam spam…
Over the past week or so I’ve been collecting these gems of comments from other blogs. They are so unrelated to the blog post and/or the English is so bad that they have to be spam. Either that or people are blogging drunk. Some bloggers have actually replied to some of these. Here are a few…
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No bags, no worries
I was surprised by the total lack of reaction to the BAA’s announcement about no bags. Was I the last person to hear about this? Or is no one concerned because they are not running Boston this year?
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BAA announcement
The BAA held the first of three “Runners Clinics” Monday night in Boston. This was the first time I’ve attended a BAA clinic. Getting into and navigating Boston is too much of a hassle. With my knee injury I hoped to get some expert advice. In the back of my mind I’m still thinking bad things.…
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time
Janathon continues as the first month of 2014 draws to a close. Can you believe it has been four weeks since New Years? In some ways it seems like it was just last week, how could a month have passed so quickly? In other ways it seems like a lifetime ago with New Year’s Eve a faint memory.…