Cycling: GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A SUNNY DAY, A FLAT ROAD, AND A TAILWIND – that’s all I could ask for to complete my cycling distance goal for the year. Unfortunately, for much of Friday's ride all I had was the first one. Not that I should complain overmuch; how often do you get late November days in the mid-50s …

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Running For Fun and Profit

I TOOK A LITTLE TRIP TO COSTA RICA LAST WEEK to visit my company’s office there, which was getting an ISO 9001 audit. And what better way to prepare for an audit than to go running? One of the engineers there is also a runner; in fact, he ran the New York Marathon last Sunday. …

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Mystery Solved, and a Few Other Tangents

THANKS TO BLAINE MOORE'S EMAIL NEWSLETTER, I FOUND OUT why my watch said I'd run much farther than 26.2 miles at the Chicago Marathon. Barring a measuring mistake (which did happen at a local half marathon in March, but unlikely at a national race), I'd concluded that my watch was off, likely due to downtown …

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On the Road Again

RAN FOR THE FIRST TIME POST-MARATHON this afternoon. This was by design – Coach Marie had labeled my training calendar Monday through Friday with identical instructions: “No Running!” Even had I tried to run, I wouldn’t have gotten very far. I had no lingering pain and was walking normally by Tuesday, but there was no …

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