Category: Rants, pontifications and general mayhem
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Memorial Day 2014
Memorial Day Weekend I’ve been totally out straight for weeks now. If I’m not doing something, I’m thinking and planning. It’s great, highly engaging and makes life interesting. But I would like to kick the shifta into neutral for a day, maybe a few hours? Memorial Day is the traditional kick off weekend for the…
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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.…