THE MILESTONE BIRTHDAY (50) ARRIVES ON SATURDAY, and the Holiday Hustle 5K race in Dexter is the first event in my year of celebratory activities. My goal is to beat 20:00 for the race, or get as close as I can to that mark. My current personal record (PR) for a 5K is 21:40, and at …
Category: Running & Cycling
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. …
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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